OTHER WORKS BY LIONEL S. BEALE, M.D., F.R.S. A HOW TO WORK WITH THE MICROSCOPE. Complete Manual of Microscopical Manipulation, containing a full description of many new processes of investigation, with directions for examining objects under the highest powers, and for taking photographs of microscopic objects. Fifth Edition. Containing over 400 Illustrations, many of them colored. 8vo. Price $7.50 THE USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN PRACTICAL MEDICINE. For Students and Practitioners, with full directions for examining the various secretions, etc., in the Microscope. Fourth Edition. 500 Illustrations. Much enlarged. 8vo. Price $7.50 "As a microscopical observer, and a histological manipulator, his (Dr. BEALE) skill and eminence are generally conceded."-Popular Science Monthly. BIOPLASM. A Contribution to the Physiology of Life, or an Introduction to the Study of Physiology and Medicine, for Students. Illustrated. Price $2.25 ON SLIGHT AILMENTS: THEIR NATURE AND TREATMENT. BY LIONEL S. BEALE, M.B., F.R.S., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF LATELY PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, AND FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF P. BLAKISTON, SON & CO., PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.-This new revised edition of Dr. Beale's "Slight Ailments" is published simultaneously with the London Edition, by special arrangement between Dr. Beale and P. Blakiston, Son and Co. It is, therefore, the only authorized edition, and contains all the Additions, Illustrations, and a complete Index, as in the London Edition. xii TABLE OF CONTENTS. Slight ailments and civilization; Interest in the patient; Attention and kindness; Tact and treatment; Quackery and tact; Humbug; Vulgarity; Decillionths of grains; Credulity and imposition; Imposture and nonsense; Principles of con- duct; Studying slight ailments; Self-supporting dispensaries; Remedies in slight ailments; Knowledge derived from microscopical observation; Intermolecular Characters in health; The dorsum of the tongue; Fungiform and filiform papillæ and their covering; Epithelial cells; Fungi and low organisms in the mouth; Bacteria; Tongue in various derangements; Importance of secretion; Dry and moist states of the tongue; Exciting the flow of saliva; White moist furred tongue; Bright red tongue; Dry brown tongue; Hæmorrhage; Cracks and fissures; Changes in the mucous membrane of mouth and fauces; Inhalers, bronchitis kettle; Of the use of spray; Metallic and other tastes in the mouth; Aphthæ, thrush, sores, and ulcers in the mouth; Treatment of aphthæ; Offensive Appetite-Nausea-Thirst-Hunger. Impaired appetite; Loss of appetite; Voracious appetite, bulimia; Nausea; Indigestion, dyspepsia; Nerve-fibres of intestinal canal; Nerve-ganglia and plexuses; Gastrodynia; Heartburn, pyrosis, or waterbrash; Flatulence, wind in the stomach; Treatment of ordinary forms of indigestion; Of condiments; In- fluence of cold; Indigestion from failing glands, as in old age; Of pepsine and Importance of regular action of bowels; Impaction of fecal matter in large intestine; Influence of the reabsorption of fluid in causing constipation; Hæmor- Of the action of enemata; Hygienic and dietetic treatment of constipation; Exercise, cold-bath, rubbing, moist applications, etc.; Diet; Of taking fluid; 123-144 |