Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . od-liver oil, and strychnine. Taka-diastase is a Japanese preparation of still strongersugar-forming power than malt-diastase, produced by the culti-vation of a fungus on bran. Malt and its various extracts, being very palatable and ofhigh nutritive value, are used in debilitating conditions ofdifferent natures, combinedwith various other foods andtonics. The extracts are alsoof value in the case of personsof feeble digestive power whengiven along with such foods
Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . od-liver oil, and strychnine. Taka-diastase is a Japanese preparation of still strongersugar-forming power than malt-diastase, produced by the culti-vation of a fungus on bran. Malt and its various extracts, being very palatable and ofhigh nutritive value, are used in debilitating conditions ofdifferent natures, combinedwith various other foods andtonics. The extracts are alsoof value in the case of personsof feeble digestive power whengiven along with such foods asoatmeal, gruel, bread and milk,or arrowroot, and the malt mustbe added after the food has be-gun to cool, as boiling destroysits starch-converting dose of powdered malt andof its various extracts is one ormore teaspoonfuls. Mustard. — This plant isgrown throughout Europe andAfrica for its seeds, which areconverted into the commonflour of mustard. It is a valu-ble stimulant and is also usedas an irritant to the in the form of a poulticeit is excellent in relieving su-perficial and deep inflamma- Mustard. 1192 MATERIA MEDICA tion. In unconscious conditions it is used to draw the blood tothe surface. Nitrate of Silver, also known as lunar caustic, is a heavycrystalline salt of silver, very soluble in water, and generallyprepared in sticks. In weak solution it has a strong astrin-gent action, and in the pure form it acts as a powerful is very slowly discharged from the system, and, if used forany great length of time, it is apt to produce a brown discolora-tion of the skin all over the body, known as argyria. Locallyit is used as a caustic, acting painlessly on warts, etc. As an as-tringent it is used in many inflammatory conditions of mucousmembranes, in the fonn of gargles, sprays, and douches. Nutmeg.—The nut-meg tree is found inlarge quantities in theWest Indies. Of lateit has been cultivatedin the southern partof the United kerne
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