The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English Part 164

_From The New York Times._

WELL-MERITED SUCCESS.

The author of "The People's Medical Adviser" is well-known to the American public as a physician of fine attainments, and his Family Medicines are favorite remedies in thousands of our households. As a counselor and friend, Dr. PIERCE is a cultured, courteous gentleman. He has devoted all his energies to the alleviation of human suffering. With this end in view and his whole heart in his labors, he has achieved marked and merited success. There can be no real success without true merit. That his success is _real_, is evidenced by the fact that his reputation, as a man and physician, does not deteriorate; and the fact that there is a steadily increasing demand for his medicines, proves that they are not nostrums, but reliable remedies for disease. The various departments of the World's Dispensary in which his Family Medicines are compounded and his special prescriptions prepared, are provided with all modern facilities.

_The New York Tribune says:_

"The American mind is active. It has given us books of fiction for the sentimentalist, learned books for the scholar and professional student, but _few books for the people_. A book _for the people_ must relate to a subject of universal interest. Such a subject is the physical man, and such a book 'The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser,' a copy of which has been recently laid on our table. The high professional attainments of its author,--Dr. R.V. PIERCE, of Buffalo, N.Y.,--and the advantages derived by him from an extensive practice, should alone insure for his work a cordial reception." Price $1.50, post-paid. Address, WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL a.s.sOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.

_From The Boston Daily Globe._

A CURE FOR MANY EVILS.

What can be accomplished by judicious enterprise, when backed up by ability and professional skill, is shown by the magnificent buildings of the World's Dispensary and the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Inst.i.tute, at Buffalo. While models of architectural beauty and completeness, their real worth and usefulness consist rather in the humanitarian objects they are made to serve. They stand superior to all inst.i.tutions of their kind, not only in material proportions but as well in the medical knowledge and practical experience of those connected with them. In each department are those and those only who by natural bent and training are specially adapted to combating their particular cla.s.s of "the ills which flesh is heir to."

VOCABULARY

OF THE

COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER,

_GIVING EACH TECHNICAL WORD EMPLOYED, REFERRING TO ITS IMAGES/ADVISE WHEN POSSIBLE, AND IN CASE THE WORD WILL NOT PERMIT OF A SHORT DEFINITION, REFERRING TO THE PAGE WHERE A FULL DESCRIPTION OF ITS MEANING MAY BE FOUND._

A

ABDOMEN. The part of the body between the diaphragm and pelvis, containing the stomach, intestines, etc. The belly.

ABDOMINAL. Belonging to the Abdomen.

ABORTION. Expulsion of the foetus before the seventh month of pregnancy.

ABSORPTION. The function of taking up substances from within or without the body.

ACETABULUM. The bone socket which receives the head of the thigh bone.

ACNE. Pimples upon the face, more common at the age of p.u.b.erty.

ADIPOSE TISSUE. A thin membrane composed of cells which contain fat.

ADVENt.i.tIOUS. Acquired.

ALb.u.mEN IN URINE in chemical composition resembles the white of an egg, and is detected by the application of heat, nitric acid, etc.

ALb.u.mINOID. Of the nature of alb.u.men.

ALb.u.mINURIA. A condition or disease in which the urine contains alb.u.men.

(See above.)

ALIMENTARY Ca.n.a.l. The ca.n.a.l extending from the mouth to the a.n.u.s, through which the food pa.s.ses.

ALLOPATHY. Allopathic school. Defined on page 293.

ALTERATIVE. A medicine which gradually changes the const.i.tution, restoring healthy functions.

ALVEOLAR PROCESS. The bony structure which contains the sockets of the teeth.

AMAUROSIS. Loss or decay of sight from disease of the optic nerve.

AMENORRHEA. Suppression of the menses.

AMNION. A membrane enveloping the foetus and the liquid.

AMPUTATION. The operation of cutting off a limb.

AMYLOID DEGENERATION. Alteration in the texture of organs, which resembles wax or lard.

AMYLOIDS. Foods composed of carbon and hydrogen; as sugar, starch, etc.

ANaeMIA. Privation of blood. Lack of red corpuscles in the blood.

ANASARCA. Dropsy attended with bloating all over the body.

ANATOMY. The science of the structure of the body.

ANESTHETIC. An agent that prevents feeling in surgical operations, and in some diseases of a painful nature.

ANGINA (PECTORIS). Violent pain about the heart, attended with anxiety and difficult breathing.

ANIMALCULA, ANIMALCULE. An animal so small as to be invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye.

ANODYNES. Medicines which relieve pain.

ANTEVERSION. The womb falling forward upon the bladder. Illus. p. 716.

ANTHELMINTICS. Medicines which destroy or expel worms from the stomach and intestines.