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 . es togive consistence to medicines made into pills. GUM-BOIL. A gum-boil sometimes arises from exposure to cold, but is causedin the majority of cases by the irritation of a spoiled tooth. Inflam-mation of the gum generally goes on to suppuration, to promotewhich warm fomentations and poultices are frequently appliedexternally, but they appear to be of very little service. The treat-ment consists in cutting into the abs
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 . es togive consistence to medicines made into pills. GUM-BOIL. A gum-boil sometimes arises from exposure to cold, but is causedin the majority of cases by the irritation of a spoiled tooth. Inflam-mation of the gum generally goes on to suppuration, to promotewhich warm fomentations and poultices are frequently appliedexternally, but they appear to be of very little service. The treat-ment consists in cutting into the abscess as soon as there is reasonto suppose that the smallest quantity of matter has formed. After- DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES, wards the mouth may be washed occasionally with an astringentlotion composed of tincture of galls and water, or of twenty ortwenty-five grains of sulphate of zinc {white vitriol) dissolved inhalf a pint of rose-water. When the pain and inflammation haveentirely subsided the decayed tooth should be extracted or filledby the dentist. HAIE, STKUCTUEE OF. The following cut shows the appearance of a section of the skinunder the microscope :. SECTION OF THE SKIN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE, AFTER BEIGEL. The cut represents the outlines of a vertical section through the human skin, A A being the epidermisadapting itself to the elevations (c C) and depressions (B B) of the sensitive layer; C C, papilla? of thecorium, D D; E E, fat deposited in the lower meshes of the corium; F F, globular balls of perspiratory-apparatus ; G G, tubes of the same apparatus; H H, openings of these tubes on the skin, called pores;11, oil glands of the skin; K K, their openings into the sheath of the hair; L L, papillae of the root ofthe hair; M M, sheath of the hair; N N, bulb and shaft of the hair. The shin in which the hair grows is composed of three layers:the epidermis, the sensitive layer, and the corium. AND MOST RECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT. 635 The skin is everywhere fill
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