The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English Part 179

URETHROTOMY. The operation for opening the urethra for the removal of stricture.

URIC ACID. A const.i.tuent of the urine.

URINARY FISTULA. Abnormal communication between the urinary pa.s.sages and the surface.

URINO-GENITAL ORGANS. Pertaining to the urinary and s.e.xual organs.

UTERINE. Belonging or relating to the womb.

UTERINE CAVITY OR Ca.n.a.l. From the month of the womb to a constriction called the internal orifice, is a cylindrical s.p.a.ce called the ca.n.a.l.

Above this to the fundus or base is a triangular and flat s.p.a.ce called the cavity.

V

v.a.g.i.n.a. A ca.n.a.l, five or six inches long, situated between the v.u.l.v.a and womb.

v.a.g.i.n.aL. Pertaining to the v.a.g.i.n.a.

VAGINISMUS. Irritable v.a.g.i.n.a.

VALVES OF THE HEART. See page 58.

VARICOCELE. Described on page 803.

VARICOSE. Veins that are twisted or dilated.

VASCULAR. Belonging or relating to vessels.

VASCULAR SYSTEM. The heart and blood-vessels.

VEINS. The vessels which return the blue blood to the heart.

VENEREAL. Syphilitic.

VENTRICLES. Chambers in the heart. See 5 and 14, Fig. 41, page 58.

VERMIFUGE. A medicine which destroys or expels worms.

VERSION. Displacement of the womb forwards or backwards.

VERTEBRae. The twenty-four bones which joined together form the backbone.

VERTEBRATES. Animals having the jointed skeleton within; distinguishes between these and insects, worms, oysters, jelly fish, etc.

VERTIGO. Dizziness Or swimming of the head.

VESICLES. Small bladders or sacs. Pimples.

VESICULAR. Belonging to or containing cells.

VILLI. Minute thread-like projections.

VIRILE POWER. Masculine vigor. s.e.xual vigor.

VIRUS. Poison. The agent which transmits infectious disease.

VISCERA. (Plural of Viscus.) More than one internal organ.

VISCOUS. Sticky. Tenacious.

VISCUS. Any internal organ.

VITREOUS HUMOR. The fluid in the eye behind the lens. Illus. page 107.

VOLITIVE TEMPERAMENT. See page 171.

v.u.l.v.a. The external organs of generation in the female, or the opening between these projecting parts.

W

WALLS. The sides of an enclosure, as the walls of the v.a.g.i.n.a, which to soma extent support the womb.

WHITES. Described on page 702.

HOW TO AVOID SWINDLERS

WHO SOMETIMES INFEST THE CARS AND DEPOTS IN AND NEAR THIS CITY.

WE WARN ALL THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE VISITING US, that we have the most _positive proofs_ that a gang of confidence men have at different times made it their business to watch for sick and infirm people on the way to our inst.i.tutions, and divert them into the hands of "sharpers,"

confidence men and swindlers. These men have watched for the coming of invalids on the cars, in and around the depots, in the offices of the hotels located near the depots, and if inquiry was made for our inst.i.tutions, or if the object of the visit to the city was made known or suspected from the invalid appearance of the traveler, they at once commenced weaving their skillfully-wrought web to catch a victim.

WE, THEREFORE,

ADVISE ALL THOSE DESIRING TO VISIT US,