Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders
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Alcott William Andrus. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders
PREFACE
TO THE READER
CHAPTER I. EDUCATIONAL TENDENCIES
CHAPTER II. MY FIRST MEDICAL LESSON
CHAPTER III. THE ELECTRICAL MACHINE
CHAPTER IV. THE MEASLES AND POURING DOWN RUM
CHAPTER V. LEE'S PILLS, AND THE DROPSY
CHAPTER VI. THE COLD SHOWER-BATH
CHAPTER VII. MY FIRST SICKNESS ABROAD
CHAPTER VIII. LESSON FROM AN OLD SURGEON
CHAPTER IX. LEE'S WINDHAM BILIOUS PILLS
CHAPTER X. DR. SOLOMON AND HIS PATIENT
CHAPTER XI. PHYSICKING OFF FEVER
CHAPTER XII. MANUFACTURING CHILBLAINS
CHAPTER XIII. HOW TO MAKE ERYSIPELAS
CHAPTER XIV. STUDYING MEDICINE
CHAPTER XV. NATURE'S OWN EYE WATER
CHAPTER XVI. THE VIPER STORY
CHAPTER XVII. STRUCK WITH DEATH
CHAPTER XVIII. EFFICACY OF COLD SPRING WATER
CHAPTER XIX. CHEATING THE PHYSICIAN
CHAPTER XX. THE MEDICINAL EFFECTS OF STORY TELLING
CHAPTER XXI. OSSIFIED VEINS
CHAPTER XXII. HE'LL DIE IN THIRTY SIX HOURS
CHAPTER XXIII. ABOUT TO DIE OF CONSUMPTION
CHAPTER XXIV. MY JOURNEYMANSHIP IN MEDICINE
CHAPTER XXV. MY TEMPERANCE PLEDGE
CHAPTER XXVI. TRIALS OF A YOUNG PHYSICIAN
CHAPTER XXVII. A DOSING AND DRUGGING FAMILY
CHAPTER XXVIII. POISONING WITH LEAD
CHAPTER XXIX. STANDING PATIENTS
CHAPTER XXX. KILLING A PATIENT
CHAPTER XXXI. A SUDDEN CURE
CHAPTER XXXII. GIGANTIC DOSES OF MEDICINE
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LAMBSKIN DISEASE
CHAPTER XXXIV. MILK PUNCH FEVER
CHAPTER XXXV. MY FIRST CASE IN SURGERY
CHAPTER XXXVI. EMILIA AND THE LOVE CURE
CHAPTER XXXVII. HEZEKIAH AND DELIRIUM TREMENS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. MY FIRST AMPUTATION
CHAPTER XXXIX. MILK, AS A REMEDY IN FEVERS
CHAPTER XL. THE VIRTUES OF PUMPKIN-SEED TEA
CHAPTER XLI. BROKEN LIMBS AND INTEMPERANCE
CHAPTER XLII. DYING FROM MERE FILTHINESS
CHAPTER XLIII. TAKING THE FEVER
CHAPTER XLIV. BLESSINGS OF CIDER AND CIDER BRANDY
CHAPTER XLV. THE INDIAN DOCTOR
CHAPTER XLVI. DYING OF OLD AGE, AT FIFTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER XLVII. DAUGHTERS DESTROYING THEIR MOTHER
CHAPTER XLVIII. POISONING WITH STRAMONIUM
CHAPTER XLIX. CURING CANCER
CHAPTER L. SWELLED LIMBS
CHAPTER LI. SUDDEN CHANGES IN OLD AGE
CHAPTER LII. AN OPIUM EATER
CHAPTER LIII. COFFEE, AND THE LAME KNEE
CHAPTER LIV. THE OPIUM PILL BOX
CHAPTER LV. BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS
CHAPTER LVI. BUTTER EATERS
CHAPTER LVII. HOT HOUSES AND CONSUMPTION
CHAPTER LVIII. POISONING BY A PAINTED PAIL
CHAPTER LIX. ONE DROP OF LAUDANUM
CHAPTER LX. MRS. KIDDER'S CORDIAL
CHAPTER LXI. ALMOST RAISING THE DEAD
CHAPTER LXII. FEMALE HEALTH, AND INSANE HOSPITALS
CHAPTER LXIII. A GIANT DYSPEPTIC
CHAPTER LXIV. GETTING INTO A CIRCLE
CHAPTER LXV. POISONING WITH MAPLE SUGAR
CHAPTER LXVI. PHYSICKING OFF MEASLES
CHAPTER LXVII. TIC DOULOUREUX
CHAPTER LXVIII. COLD WATER IN FEVER
CHAPTER LXIX. COLD-TAKING AND CONSUMPTION
CHAPTER LXX. FREEZING OUT DISEASE
CHAPTER LXXI. THE AIR-CURE
CHAPTER LXXII. THE CLERGYMAN
CHAPTER LXXIII. HE MUST BE PHYSICKED, OR DIE
CHAPTER LXXIV. WHO HATH WOE? OR, THE SICK WIDOW
CHAPTER LXXV. THE PENALTY OF SELF-INDULGENCE
CHAPTER LXXVI. DR. BOLUS AND MORPHINE
CHAPTER LXXVII. BLEEDING AND BLISTERING OMITTED
CHAPTER LXXVIII. MEDICAL VIRTUES OF SLEEP
CHAPTER LXXIX. CURE BY DEEP BREATHING
CHAPTER LXXX. SPIRIT-DOCTORING
CHAPTER LXXXI. REMARKABLE CURE OF EPILEPSY
CHAPTER LXXXII. SCARLATINA CURED BY LETTING ALONE
CHAPTER LXXXIII. IGNORANCE NOT ALWAYS BLISS
CHAPTER LXXXIV. MEASLES WITHOUT SNAKEROOT AND SAFFRON
CHAPTER LXXXV. THE CONSUMPTIVE PAIR
CHAPTER LXXXVI. HOW TO CURE CHOLERA
CHAPTER LXXXVII. OBSTINACY AND SUICIDE
CHAPTER LXXXVIII. HEALTH HOSPITALS
CHAPTER LXXXIX. DESTRUCTION BY SCROFULA
CHAPTER XC. STARVING OUT DISEASE
CHAPTER XCI. DIETING ON MINCE PIE
CHAPTER XCII. GIANTS IN THE EARTH
CHAPTER XCIII. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN PATIENT
CHAPTER XCIV. CURE OF POISON FROM LEAD
CHAPTER XCV. FAITH AND WORKS
CHAPTER XCVI. WORKS WITHOUT FAITH
CHAPTER XCVII. DISEASES OF LICENTIOUSNESS
CHAPTER XCVIII. CURIOUS AND INSTRUCTIVE FACTS
CHAPTER XCIX. ANTI-MEDICAL TESTIMONY
CHAPTER C. AN ANTI-MEDICAL PREMIUM
CHAPTER CI. CONCLUDING REMARKS
CHAPTER CII. A LAST CHAPTER
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In the sub-title to the following work, I have used the word "Confessions" – not to mislead the reader, but because to confess is one prominent idea of its author. It is a work in which confessions of the impotence of the healing art, as that art has been usually understood, greatly abound; and in which the public ignorance of the laws of health or hygiene, with the consequences of that ignorance, are presented with great plainness. The world will make a wiser use of its medical men than it has hitherto done, when it comes to see more clearly what is their legitimate and what their ultimate mission.
These remarks indicate the main intention of the writer. It is not so much to enlighten or aid, or in any way directly affect the medical man, as to open the eyes of the public to their truest interests; to a just knowledge of themselves; and to some faint conception of their bondage to credulity and quackery. The reader will find that I go for science and truth, let them affect whom they may. Let him, then, suspend his judgment till he has gone through this volume once, and I shall have no fears. He may, indeed, find fault with my style, and complain of my literary or philosophic unfitness for the task I assigned myself; but he will, nevertheless, be glad to know my facts.
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"Youth forward slips,
Death soonest nips."
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