Wax in the ear, II, 34

Wear and tear (See Contents VI)

Weaning, III, 117

=WEEPING SINEW=, I, 75

Wen, II, 126

Wheat water, IV, 264

Whey, mixtures, IV, 265
wine, IV, 266

Whites, III, 87

Whitlow, I, 74, 75

Whooping cough, I, 238

Womb, hemorrhage from the, III, 82

Women, exercises for, IV, 76

Wood tick, bite of, I, 159

=WORMS=, pin, III, 243
round, III, 242
tape, III, 245

=WOUNDS=, I, 50
about the eyes, II, 16
caused by pistols, I, 56
caused by firecrackers, I, 56
cleansing, I, 59
foreign bodies in, I, 54, 56
scalp, I, 60
stitching, I, 58
treatment of, I, 50, 57

Wrist, fracture of the, I, 99
sprain of the, I, 65, 67

Yellow fever, I, 261
mosquito as cause of, I, 157, 261, 265

Preface

Medicine, as the art of preserving and restoring health, is the
rightful office of the great army of earnest and qualified American
physicians. But their utmost sincerity and science are hampered by
trying restrictions with three great classes of people: those on whom
the family physician cannot call _every day_; those on whom he cannot
call _in time_; and those on whom he cannot call _at all_.

To lessen these restrictions, thus assisting and extending the
healer's work, is the aim of the pages that follow.

Consider first the average American household, where the family
physician cannot call _every day_. Not a day finds this household
without the need of information in medicine or hygiene or sanitation.
More efforts of the profession are thwarted by ignorance than by
epidemic. Not to supplant the doctor, but to supplement him, carefully
prepared information should be at hand on the hygiene of
health--sanitation, diet, exercise, clothing, baths, etc.; on the
hygiene of disease--nursing and sick-room conduct, control of the
nervous and insane, emergency resources, domestic remedies; above all,
on the prevention of disease, emphasizing the folly of self-treatment;
pointing out the danger of delay in seeking skilled medical advice
with such troubles as cancer, where early recognition may bring
permanent cure; showing the benefit of simple sanitary precautions,
such as the experiment-stations method of exterminating the
malaria-breeding mosquito. The volumes treating of these subjects
cannot be made too clear, nontechnical, fundamental, or too