Medical Home Remedies:
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MEDICAL INTRO
BOOKS ON OLD MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND REMEDIES

THE PRACTICAL
HOME PHYSICIAN AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE
The biggy of the late 1800's. Clearly shows the massive inroads in medical science and the treatment of disease.

ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY In fact alcohol was known to be a poison, and considered quite dangerous. Something modern medicine now agrees with. This was known circa 1907. A very impressive scientific book on the subject.

DISEASES OF THE SKIN is a massive book on skin diseases from 1914. Don't be feint hearted though, it's loaded with photos that I found disturbing.

Part of  SAVORY'S COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE:

 19th CENTURY HEALTH MEDICINES AND DRUGS

 

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Dropsy of the Chest.

This may occur as the result of inflammation of the membrane covering the lungs, as has been described under the subject of pleurisy.

It may also occur as a part of general dropsy, especially when this dropsy results from disease of the heart. Although the fluid itself contained in the chest is not poisonous nor otherwise injurious, yet its presence causes mechanically effects which may seriously incommode the patient, The effect results from the mechanical compression of the lung, whereby the breathing becomes labored.

Evidences of this are to be found in the hurried acts of breathing, and in the sense of suffocation which occurs whenever the patient lies down ; he is often compelled to sleep in the sitting posture, or with the head propped up by pillows. The face becomes swollen, the lips and even the cheeks are livid. By the time that these symptoms have supervened there is usually swelling of the feet and legs.

The treatment is essentially that already recommended for the management of general dropsy, though if the dropsy be confined to the chest alone, it is much better to remove the liquid by tap­ ping than to torment the patient with cathartics.

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