Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . and tartrates, arecalled **indirect alkalies. In poisoning by acids, one at once administers dilute alkalinesolutions. Caustic, , undiluted, alkalies are used to destroywarts. Bee-stings and insect-bites cause irritation because ofan acid injected by the insect, and consequently are relieved byweak alkaline applications, especially by ammonia or carbonateof ammonia (for example, in aromatic spirits of ammonia), which are most penetrating. Inter-nally one admin
Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . and tartrates, arecalled **indirect alkalies. In poisoning by acids, one at once administers dilute alkalinesolutions. Caustic, , undiluted, alkalies are used to destroywarts. Bee-stings and insect-bites cause irritation because ofan acid injected by the insect, and consequently are relieved byweak alkaline applications, especially by ammonia or carbonateof ammonia (for example, in aromatic spirits of ammonia), which are most penetrating. Inter-nally one administers very weaksolutions of soda and potash ortheir bicarbonate in powder, forbronchitis, when the phlegm isthick and hard to cough up. Inweak digestion, they are takenat the beginning of a meal tostimulate the flow of acid gastricjuice; or in heartburn, after ameal, to neutralize the excess ofacid. In gout and generalacidity they are much dose of bicarbonate of soda(baking-soda) or of potash istwenty grains (or as much ascan be heaped on a ten-centpiece), and of carbonate of am-Aimond monia five grains, or, in the. ALMOND — ALOE—ALUM 1U% form of aromatic spirits of ammonia, a small teaspoonful, welldiluted with water. Almond.—This tree resembles the peach tree, and it flowersin the spring before the leaves come out. It is largely cultivatedin the United States and in the southern part of Europe. Theseeds, or nuts, yield a valuable oil, which is serviceable in reliev-ing tickling coughs. It also has an action on the urinary the scalding or burning of the urine and in the diseases of thekidneys, when combined with othsr remedies, it has been foundserviceable. The oil is used in alcoholic spirits, or with oil ofsavina in so-called diuretic drops. Aloe.—There are many varieties of this plant found inEurope and Africa. It bloomsonce a year, and its leaves yielda valuable drug. Of the manyvarieties, one is used for horsesand the others for humans. It isa
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