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Title: Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Corish, J. L
Subjects: Medicine, Popular
Publisher: New York : Domestic Health Society
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rmilk forms a healthy article of diet;and the bacilli, which are harmless,have, in some cases of intestinal disease, a highly beneficialaction. Butteraiilk has a similar effect. Lithium is a metal of which the carbonate and citrate are fre-quently used in medicine, as well as other salts to a smaller ex-tent. These salts form soluble compounds with uric acid andurate of soda, and therefore they are credited not only with beingable to ward off attacks of gout, but with a certain amount ofpower in reducing the size of chalk-stones and other gouty de-posits and in dissolving uratic stones deposited in kidney orbladder. Probably their action in this particular is greatly over-estimated, and more benefit is derived from the large quantitiesof water in which they are taken than from the lithium itself.When these salts are taken they must be continued for some timein order to produce any result, and about five grains of either aretaken three times a day. There is also an effervescent citrate
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Lobelia LACTIC ACID BACILLI —LITHIUM—LADY VSLIPPEK —LEAD 1185 of lithium, of which one or more teaspoonfuls are mixed with atumblerful of water. Ladys-slipper.—This orchid-like plant is common on the hillsand in the swamps of New YorkState, and is found throughoutthe United States, being com-monly called nerve-root. Ladys-slipper root is a sedative andnerve tonic and has been foundvaluable as a substitute for va-lerian. It is usually taken in theform of a tincture, the dose beingone tablespoonful. Lead has no action itself uponthe system, but its salts, whenabsorbed in any quantity, or forany length of time, have very im-portant effects. When a lead saltcomes in contact with a wound orwith any mucous surface, it com-bines with the albuminous ma-terial of the discharge or secre- ,. • o 1,i.* 1. 1 Ladys-slipper tion to lorm a whitish glaze, which affords a great degree of protection to the surface. Fur-ther, the lead salt has an astringent action upon the blood-vessels, and th

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