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Symptoms (Bleeding of the gums teeth)
Bleeding of the gums, teeth loose, spots of various colors on the skin, generally livid, debility, countenance pale and bloated, pulse small, quick, and intermitting. In its advanced stage the joints swell, and blood bursts out from different parts of the body.
Treatment. Remove the patient to a new and healthy situation, where the air is dry and pure, give him plenty of fresh vegetables, such as potatoes, spinach, lettuce, beets, carrots, and scurvygrass. A small proportion of fresh animal food should be taken with them. This, with oranges, lemons and sugar, or lemonade, spruce-beer, with wine and water, are generally sufficient to cure the complaint. If there is much pain in the bowels, laudanum must be used to relieve it. If the breathing is difficult, or there is much pain in the breast, apply a blister to it, for on no account should blood be drawn in scurvy. A teaspoonful of charcoal, well mixed with half a pint of vinegar, forms an excellent gargle to clean the gums and ulcers in the mouth. Those on the body may be washed with the same, or lemon-juice, pure, or mixed with water. The yeast or charcoal poultice may also be applied to them with advantage. To restore the tone of the system, recourse must be had to the Peruvian bark, with the elixir of vitriol, the muriated tincture of iron, exercise, etc., etc.
Of Tumors. part of the body. They are of different kinds, arise from various causes, and are more or less dangerous, according to the nature of their contents, and the spot they occupy. Unless cancerous, they are generally not dangerous to life. Of Ruptures.
Ruptures are tumors caused by the protrusion of a part of the bowels through certain natural openings. They are divided into reducible, irreducible, and strangulated. They mostly occur in men in the groin and bag.
Causes. Straining in any way, as at stool, vomiting, lifting heavy weights, violent exercise, as jumping, running, etc.; a natural weakness of the parts.
Reducible Ruptures.