m--Rheumatic Gout--
Scurvy in Adults and Infants--Gout, its Causes and
Remedies.

PART III

I. HEALTH AND PURITY 191

Duties of Parents--Sexual Abuse--Dangers to
Health--Physical Examination of Infants--Necessary
Knowledge of Sex Functions Natural--The Critical Age
of Puberty--Marriage Relations.

II. GENITO-URINARY DISEASES 199

Gonorrhea in Men and Women--Dangers of Infection--
Syphilis, its Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment--
Incontinence and Suppression of Urine--Bed-wetting--
Inflammation of the Bladder--Acute and Chronic
Bright's Disease.

PART IV

I. INSANITY 229

Mental Disorder Not Insanity--Illusions of the
Insane--Hallucinations and Delusions--Signs and
Causes of Insanity--Paranoia--How the Physician
Should Be Aided--The Best Preventive.

_Appendix._ PATENT MEDICINES 245

Advice Regarding the Use of Patent Medicines--Laws
Regulating the Sale of Drugs--Proprietary
Medicines--Good Remedies--Dangers of So-called
"Cures"--Headache Powders--The Great American Fraud.

Part I

THE EYE AND EAR, THE NOSE
AND THROAT, THE LUNGS
AND BRONCHIAL TUBES,
HEADACHES

BY

KENELM WINSLOW

CHAPTER I

=The Eye and Ear=

_Injuries to the Eye--Inflammatory Conditions--"Pink
Eye"--Nearsightedness and Farsightedness--Deafness--Remedies for
Earache._

=CINDERS AND OTHER FOREIGN BODIES IN THE EYE.=--Foreign bodies are
most frequently lodged on the under surface of the upper lid, although
the surface of the eyeball and the inner aspect of the lower lid
should also be carefully inspected. A drop of a two-per-cent solution
of cocaine will render painless the manipulations. The patient should
be directed to continue looking downward, and the lashes and edge of
the lid are grasped by the forefinger and thumb of the right hand,
while a very small pencil is gently pressed against the upper part of
the lid, and the lower part is lifted outward and upward against the
pencil so that it is turned inside out. The lid may be kept in this
position by a little pressure on the lashes, while the cinder,