Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . as a stimulatingapplication to fetid sores attended with a thin acrid discharge. Nitro-Muriatic Acid. (See Muriatic Acid.) NUX YOMICA (STRYCHNINE). This is the product of a tree that grows in Ceylon. It is much used as a tonic. It directly affects the spinal cord,and is therefore frequently successful in paralysis that is depen-dent on diseases of the cord. Nux vomica is one of the best of ourmany uncertain drugs for dy
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . as a stimulatingapplication to fetid sores attended with a thin acrid discharge. Nitro-Muriatic Acid. (See Muriatic Acid.) NUX YOMICA (STRYCHNINE). This is the product of a tree that grows in Ceylon. It is much used as a tonic. It directly affects the spinal cord,and is therefore frequently successful in paralysis that is depen-dent on diseases of the cord. Nux vomica is one of the best of ourmany uncertain drugs for dyspepsia and nervous exhaustion. It is AND MOST EECEXT METHODS OF TREATMENT. 745 very useful in constipation, and is an ingredient in some of onr laxa-tive pills. The dose is from three to five grains. The tincture isusually given in doses of from ten to twenty drops. At the present time strychnine—which is prepared from nuxvomica—is more used than the nux vomica itself. (See Strych-nine.) OPHTHALMOSCOPE AND OTOSCOPE. Physicians examine the- eye with the ophthalmoscope. Withthe otoscope they examine the ear. The ophthalmoscope is repre-sented in the accompanying liebreichs ophthalmoscope. The use of the ophthalmoscope has wrought a great change inthe study of diseases of the eye, just as has the laryngoscope indiseases of the larynx, and the stethoscope in diseases of the chest,and the microscope in diseases of the urinary organs. By the aid of the ophthalmoscope the physician can see theretina and the nerve of the eye, and can determine whether theyare in a condition of health or disease. Since the discovery ofthe ophthalmoscope the science of diseases of the eye has madewonderful progress. The otoscope consists simply of a mirror to reflect the light, anda speculum for the auditory canal. (See Speculum.) OPIUM. Opium is the concreted juice of the capsule or head of the whitepoppy. Opium renders the pulse fuller, stronger, and quicker. Thelatter action, however, is no
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