+metatarsophalangeal.+ Relating to the metatarsal bones and the
phalanges.

+meter.+ Measure, as in meter, a measure of length, the equivalent of
39.3 inches.

+microbe.+ A minute one-celled microorganism.

+micrococcus.+ A genus of schizomycetes.

+microorganism.+ A minute living body.

+miliary.+ Like millet seeds, in size.

+molecular.+ Pertaining to molecules.

+molecule.+ The smallest possible unit of existence of any substance.

+morphine.+ The chief narcotic principle of opium.

+mortification.+ Death; gangrene.

+mucous.+ Relating to mucous as in mucous membrane.

+mucus.+ A clear viscid secretion of a mucous membrane, mucilagenous in
character.

+mummification.+ Dry gangrene.

+myeloma.+ A tumor due to hyperplasia of the bone marrow.

+myoma.+ A muscular tumor.

+myxoma.+ A tumor of stellate or polyhedral cells in a matrix of mucin.

+N+

+naevus (nevus).+ A congenital mark or discolored patch of the skin.

+nail (unguis).+ The horny plate covering the distal end of the terminal
phalanx of each finger and toe.

+naphthalan.+ A gelatinous mixture employed as a protective dressing in
burns and in skin diseases.

+narcosis.+ Stupor or general anesthesia produced by some narcotic drug.

+nascent.+ Beginning; incipient.

+necrosis.+ Death of a circumscribed portion of tissue.

+neoplasm.+ A new growth; a tumor.

+neosalvarsan.+ A modified salvarsan: No. 914.

+nephritis.+ Inflammation of the kidney.

+nerve.+ A whitish cord made up of nerve fibres.

+neuralgia.+ Pain in a nerve.

+neurasthenia.+ Nerve exhaustion.

+neuritic.+ Relating to neuritis.

+neuritis.+ Nerve inflammation.

+neuroma.+ Nerve tumor.

+neuron.+ Nerve cell, as in neuritis, inflammation of a nerve.

+neutralize.+ To render ineffective.

+node.+ A knob; a circumscribed swelling.

+nostrum.+ A quack remedy.

+novocaine.+ A synthetic local anesthetic.

+noxious.+ Injurious; harmful.

+nucleus.+ The essential part of a typical cell and the controlling
centre of its activity.

+O+

+obliteration.+ Extinction.

+official+ (in pharmacy). Authoritative; standard.

+oid.+ Like, as in lymphoid, resembling or like lymph.

+oil.+ A liquid of fatty consistency, insoluble in water and
inflammable. Examples: camphorated oil, carbolic oil, carron oil,
linseed oil, oil of turpentine, sweet oil, sesame oil, tar oil.

+ointment.+ A soft, fatty, medicated mixture.

+onychauxis.+ Enlargement of finger or of toe nails.

+onychia.+ Inflammation of the matrix with suppuration and shedding of
the nail.

+onychocryptosis.+ Ingrowing toe-nail.

+onycholysis.+ Loosening or shedding of the nails.

+onychomalacia.+ Loss or absence of nail rigidity.

+onychomycosis.+ Any parasitic disease of the nails.

+onychophag.+ One whose habit it is to bite his finger-nails.

+onychophagy.+ Nail-biting.

+onychoptosis.+ Falling off of the nails.

+onychorrhexis.+ Abnormal brittleness of the nails.

+onyx.+ A finger nail or a toe nail.

+onyxis.+ Ingrowing toe-nail.

+opisthotonos.+ Spasmodic rigidity of the body in which the trunk is
thrown backward and arched upward.

+oral.+ Relating to the mouth.

+organic.+ Pertaining to or having organs, exhibiting animal or
vegetable characteristics.

+orthoform.+ A white, odorless, crystalline powder; employed as a local
anesthetic and antiseptic in burns, ulcers, etc.

+orthopedics.+ That branch of surgery which treats of chronic diseases
of the joints and spine and the correction of deformities. (See
chiropodial orthopedics.)

+os (plural ossa).+ Bone.

+osis.+ Full of, as in tuberculosis, a specific disease caused by the
presence of the bacillus tuberculosis.

+osseous.+ Bony.

+osmidrosis.+ Bromidrosis; the excretion of perspiration of a strong
odor.

+ossification.+ The formation of bone.

+osteitis.+ Inflammation of bone.

+osteoclast.+ A polynuclear cell concerned in the absorption of bone.

+osteogenetic.+ The development and formation of bone.

+osteoma.+ A bony tumor.

+osteomalacia.+ Softening of the bone.

+osteomyelitis.+ Inflammation of the bone marrow or of both marrow and
bone.

+ous.+ Full of, as in fibrous, full of or composed of fibres.

+oxygen.+ A gaseous element, the most widely distributed. Essential to
animal and plant life; symbol O.

+ozone.+ A modified form of oxygen.

+P+

+pachylosis.+ Thick, dry and abnormal quality of skin which cracks into
scales of irregular form.

+pack.+ The process of enveloping a patient in a wet sheet or blanket.
Cold pack: in sheets wrung out of water; hot pack: in sheets wrung out
of hot water; dry pack: in dry warmed blankets, etc.

+pachyacria.+ Bulbous thickening of the extremities of the fingers or
toes.

+pachydermia.+ Thick skin; elephantiasis.

+palliative.+ Mitigating; lessening the severity.

+palm.+ The flat of the hand.

+palpation.+ Exploration with the hand.

+panidrosis.+ Sweating from all parts of the skin.

+papilla.+ Any small nipple-like process.

+papilloma.+ A growth of hypertrophied papillae of the skin.

+papule.+ A small circumscribed elevation of the skin, containing no
fluid. A pimple.

+paralysis.+ Loss of power of voluntary movement in a muscle through
injury or disease of nerve supply.

+parasite.+ An organism that inhabits another organism and obtains
nourishment from it.

+paresis.+ General paralysis of the insane or dementia paralytics. A
condition thought to be due to a chronic meningitis.

+paresthesia.+ An abnormal spontaneous sensation such as of numbness,
burning, pricking, tingling, etc.

+parenchyma.+ The specific tissues of a gland or organ.

+paronychia.+ Felon, whitlow. Inflammation of the structures in the
distal phalanx of the finger.

+patella.+ Kneecap.

+pathogenic.+ Causing disease.

+pathology.+ That branch of medicine which treats of disease and the
changes in the tissues of the body caused by disease.

+pathy.+ Suffering, or disease as in Homeopathy—disease, the quality of
being treated by likes.

+pedicure.+ One who attends the feet, cosmetically.

+per.+ Through, as in peripheral, away from the centre; the outer part
of or surface.

+peri.+ A Greek prefix meaning around or about.

+peridental.+ Surrounding a tooth or part of a tooth.

+periosteum.+ The fibrous membrane investing the surface of bones except
at the point of tendinous and ligimentous attachment, and on the
particular surfaces where cartilage is substituted.

+periostitis.+ Inflammation of the periosteum.

+periphery.+ The part of a body away from the centre; the outer part or
surface, as of a bone or of a nerve.

+peritoneum.+ The sac lining the abdominal cavity and covering most of
the viscera therein contained.

+perivascular.+ Surrounding a blood-vessel.

+peroxid.+ An oxid with the highest amount of oxygen.

+pes (pl. pedes).+ The foot.

+phagocyte.+ A cell possessing the property of ingesting bacteria or
other foreign particles.

+phagocytosis.+ The destruction of microbes by the action of phagocytes.

+phalanx.+ One of the long bones of the fingers or toes.

+phenol.+ Carbolic acid.

+phlebitis.+ Inflammation of a vein.

+phlegmon.+ Acute suppurative inflammation of subcutaneous tissue.

+physiology.+ The science which deals with the functions of living
things.

+picric acid.+ A combination of carbolic and nitric acids.

+pigment.+ An organic coloring matter.

+plantalgia.+ Pain on the sole of the foot.

+plantar.+ Relating to the sole of the foot.

+plaque.+ A flat patch or area on the skin or mucous membrane.

+plasia.+ Moulding, as in hypoplasia. defective development.

+plaster-of-Paris.+ Calcium sulphate.

+plastic.+ Capable of being moulded.

+plegia.+ Stroke, as in hemiplegia, paralysis of one side of the body
and of the opposite side of the face.

+plethoric.+ Relating to overfilled blood-vessels.

+pleura.+ The serous membrane enveloping the lungs.

+plexus.+ A new network of nerves or veins.

+podagra.+ Gout, especially, typical gout in the great toe.

+podagral.+ Gouty, relating to or suffering from gout.

+podalic.+ Relating to the foot, as in podalgia, pain in the foot,
podarthritis, inflammation of any of the tarsal or metatarsal joints.

+podiatrist.+ One who treats diseases and disorders of the feet.

+podobromidrosis.+ Fetid or foul smelling perspiration of the feet.

+pododynia.+ Pain in the foot or podalgia.

+podology.+ A treatise on the foot.

+poly.+ A Greek prefix for much or many, ex: polyphagia, excessive
eating.

+poroma.+ Callus; exostosis.

+potassium.+ An alkaline metallic element. Among the salts of potassium
are: potassium bichromate, employed externally as a caustic to
syphilitic vegetations; potassium hydroxide, used as a strong
penetrating caustic.

+poultice.+ A soft emulsion for external application.

+pous.+ Foot, as in podiatrist.

+pre.+ A prefix denoting anterior or before.

+predisposing.+ Inclining to, as a disease.

+prepatellar.+ In front of the patella.

+prognosis.+ A forecast of the result. In medicine, the prior
determination of the outcome of a disease.

+proliferation.+ Cell-genesis, reproduction.

+pronation.+ The act of rotating the forearm in such a way that the palm
of the hand looks backward when the arm is in the anatomic position,
or downward when the arm is extended at a right angle with the body.
(Stedman.)

+prophylactic.+ Preventing disease.

+protargol.+ A combination of silver with a proteid base.

+protean.+ Having the power to change form.

+protonuclein.+ A preparation from the lymphoid tissue of animals.

+protoplasm.+ Primitive organic cell matter.

+protuberance.+ A projecting part.

+pseudo.+ Prefix, signifying false.

+ptomain.+ A crystallizable nitrogenous basic substance, produced by
bacteria in dead animal or vegetable matter.

+punctured.+ Wounded by a pointed instrument.

+purge.+ A cathartic.

+purulent.+ Having the character of pus.

+pus.+ A fluid product of inflammation.

+pustule.+ A soft purulent papule.

+putrefaction.+ Organic decomposition, decay.

+putrid.+ Manifesting putrefaction.

+pyemia.+ A condition in which pyogenic bacteria circulate in the blood,
and form abscesses wherever they lodge.

+pyogenic.+ Developing or excreting pus.

+pyorrhea.+ A discharge of pus.

+pyorrhea alveolaris.+ Rigg’s disease; suppurative inflammation of the
periosteum lining the teeth in their sockets.

+Q+

+q.h.+ Every hour, used in prescription writing.

+q.s.+ Sufficient quantity, used in prescription writing.

+quinine.+ An alkaloid of cinchona.

+quinine and urea hydrochlorate.+ Used as a local anesthetic.

+R+

+rachitic.+ Pertaining to rickets.

+rationale.+ Fundamental reason.

+Raynaud’s disease.+ Symmetrical gangrene of the extremities.

+recipe.+ “Take thou.” Used to precede directions in prescription
writing.

+rectum.+ The terminal part of the digestive tube from the pelvic colon
to the anus.

+refrigeration.+ The act of cooling or reducing fever.

+remittent.+ Characterized by temporary abatement of symptoms.

+resection.+ Removal of articular ends forming a joint; removing a
segment of any part.

+retention.+ Holding back as of excretions and secretions.

+rhea.+ A flow, as in diarrhea, an abnormally frequent discharge of more
or less fluid fecal matter from the bowels.

+rheumatism.+ An acute, probably infectious, condition; when articular,
the joints are inflamed.

+rhigolene.+ A liquid obtained from petroleum distillation. Used as a
local anesthetic.

+rickets.+ Disease of early childhood characterized by defective
nutrition of the bony structures.

+Roentgen rays.+ (See X-ray.)

+rotated.+ Turned about or around on its own axis.

+S+

+sac.+ Pouch; bursa.

+saccharomyces.+ The yeast fungi.

+salicylate of mercury.+ A salt of mercury and salicylic acid.

+salvarsan.+ The Ehrlich-Hata anti-syphilitic preparation; known also as
No. 606.

+saphenous vein.+ The ascending vein of the lower limb which empties
into the femoral vein.

+saprophyte.+ A microorganism which normally grows on dead matter.

+sapremia.+ Intoxication due to absorption of dead saprophytes into the
system.

+saprophytic.+ Pertaining to saprophytes.

+sarcoma.+ A malignant connective tissue tumor.

+scaphoid.+ One of the small bones of the wrist. One of the bones of the
tarsus.

+scar.+ Mark of a wound.

+scarlet fever.+ Scarlatina. An acute exanthematous disease.

+schizomycetes.+ The fisson fungi microorganisms; bacteria;
putrefaction; organic decomposition, decay.

+sclerosis.+ Induration and overgrowth of the connective tissue of an
organ.

+scope.+ View, as in stethoscope, an instrument originally devised for
aid in hearing the respiratory or c a r d i a c  s o u n d s in
the chest.

+scrotum.+ The sac containing the testicles.

+sebum.+ The fat excreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin.

+secare-sect.+ To cut, as in dissect, to cut apart or separate the
tissues of the body in the study of anatomy.

+sedative.+ Calming, quieting.

+senile.+ Relating to old age.

+sensibility.+ The consciousness of sensation.

+sensory.+ Pertaining to sensation.

+sepsis.+ (See septicemia.)

+septicemia.+ An infection characterized by the presence of bacteria and
their toxins in the blood.

+sequestrum.+ A fragment of necrosed bone.

+serous.+ Relating to, containing or producing serum.

+serum.+ A clear watery fluid moistening the surface of serous membranes
or exudate resulting from inflammation of any of those membranes.

+shaft.+ The part of a long bone between its ends.

+shock.+ A sudden physical or mental disturbance.

+sinus.+ A hollow cavity recess, or pocket in the body tissues.

+skiagraph.+ A shadow. The production of photographs by means of
Roentgen rays.

+skin.+ The membranous covering of the body.

+skiving.+ Splitting or paring materials for adjusting shields to
surfaces on the foot.

+slough.+ Necrosed tissue separated from living structure.

+smallpox.+ Variola; an acute eruptive contagious disease.

+sodium chloride.+ Common table salt.

+sodium hydroxide.+ Caustic soda. Used for its caustic effects.

+sodium sulphate.+ Colorless crystals. Glauber’s salt; a purgative.

+sodium urate.+ The substance found in gouty nodes; chalk-stone.

+spasm.+ An involuntary convulsive muscular contraction.

+spirillum.+ A genus of spirillaceae containing rigid cells with polar
tufts.

+spirochaeta pallida.+ The specific organism of syphilis.

+splint.+ An apparatus for fixating a joint.

+spontaneous.+ Occurring without external stimulation.

+spores.+ Reproductive bodies of cryptogams.

+stagnation.+ Cessation of motion.

+staphylococcus.+ A coccus; a genus of schizomycetes in which the cocci
are irregularly clustered like a bunch of grapes.

+stasis.+ Standing, as in hemostasis, the arrest of the circulation in
the blood vessels of a part.

+sterile.+ Barren, not fertile.

+sterilization.+ The destruction of germs.

+sternum.+ The breast-bone.

+stovaine.+ A local anesthetic; used largely to induce intraspinal
anesthesia.

+stratum corneum.+ The horny or outer layer of the epidermis.

+streptococcus.+ A genus of schizomycetes in which the cocci are
arranged in strings or in chains.

+strismus.+ Spasm.

+structure.+ The component formation features of a tissue.

+strychnine.+ An alkaloid of nux vomica.

+styptic.+ Having the property of checking hemorrhage.

+sub.+ A Latin prefix denoting, beneath, as subareolar, beneath the
areola or minute area.

+subcutaneous.+ Under the skin.

+subcutin.+ A white crystalline powder used in saline solution as a
local anesthetic.

+supinate.+ To turn the hand so that it is supine, i. e., with the palm
outward. The opposite of pronation.

+suppository.+ A solid medicine, melting at body temperature, for
introduction into the rectum or vagina.

+suppuration.+ The formation of pus.

+supra.+ A prefix denoting a position above.

+suture.+ An anatomic union between two bones; the surgical union of two
surfaces by stitches.

+symptomatic.+ Relating to symptoms; indicative.

+symptomatology.+ The study of the symptoms of disease.

+synchronous.+ Occurring at the same time.

+syncope.+ Swooning or fainting.

+synovia.+ Tenacious, colorless, stringy alkaline fluid which lubricates
a joint; in appearance like the white of eggs.

+synovial.+ Pertaining to synovia.

+synovitis. Inflammation of a synovial membrane.

+synthetic.+ Created from parts into a compound.

+syphilis.+ An infectious disease spread by inoculation thru sexual
intercourse; also possible by contamination thru table utensils,
towel, pipes, etc.

+systemic.+ Relating to a system.

+T+

+tabes dorsalis.+ Locomotor ataxia; posterior spinal sclerosis.

+talipes.+ Clubfoot.

+talipes calcaneus.+ The heel touching the ground and the foot generally
in extreme dorsi-flexion.

+talipes cavus.+ Hollow foot. An increased curvature of the arch of the
foot.

+talipes equinus.+ Club foot, the patient walking on his toes, and the
foot in plantar flexion.

+talipes planus.+ Flat foot; a deformity marked by depression of the
arch of the foot.

+talipes valgus.+ Eversion of the foot, the inner side of the foot
resting on the ground.

+talipes varus.+ Inversion of the foot, the outer side of the sole of
the foot touching the ground.

+tarsus.+ A bone of the posterior part of the foot.

+technic.+ Details of a procedure.

+tendo Achillis.+ The common tendon of the gastrocnemius and soleus
muscles.

+tendon.+ A white, glistening fibrous tissue, affording attachment of
muscles to bone.

+tenosynovitis.+ Inflammation of a tendon and its sheath.

+tenotomy.+ The surgical division of a tendon.

+terminal.+ Relating to the end, extremity or summit of any body.

+tetanus.+ Lock jaw. A very fatal disease due to the introduction of the
bacillus tetanus into the tissues.

+therapy.+ Treatment, as hydrotherapy, treatment of diseases by means of
water.

+therapeutics.+ The branch of medical science concerned with the
application of remedies for the alleviation of pain and the treatment
of disease.

+thermal.+ Pertaining to heat.

+thoracentesis.+ Tapping the thorax to release fluid from it.

+thrombin.+ The fibrin ferment.

+thrombosis.+ The formation of a thrombus.

+thrombus.+ A blood clot in a vessel producing an obstruction in the
flow of the blood in the same.

+thymol.+ A phenol found in some volatile oils. Used as a deodorizer and
as an antiseptic.

+tibia.+ The shin-bone.

+tincture.+ The pharmacy name of an alcoholic solution or extract of a
nonvolatile vegetable substance.

+tissue.+ A collection of cells or derivatives of cells forming a
definite structure.

+toma, or oma.+ Tumor in hematoma, a bloody tumor.

+tourniquet.+ An instrument or apparatus for arresting the flow of blood
from a vessel in a limb by pressure.

+toxalbumins.+ Poisonous soluble albuminoids producing specific disease.

+toxemia.+ A poisoned state of the blood due to the absorption of
poisons not of parasitic origin.

+toxicity.+ A state of being poisonous.

+toxicology.+ The science of poisons and their antidotes.

+toxins.+ Amorphous, nitrogenous poisons, formed by bacteria in both
living tissues and dead substances.

+trabecula.+ Any one of the fibrous bands extending from the capsule
into the interior of an organ.

+tracheotomy.+ The operation of opening into the trachea.

+traction.+ Drawing; pulling.

+tragopodia.+ Knock-knee.

+transfusion.+ The transfer of blood from one person to another.

+transplant.+ To transfer from one part to another as in plastic
operations.

+trauma.+ A wound or injury.

+traumatic.+ Relating to or caused by a wound.

+trinitrin.+ Nitroglycerin.

+triturate.+ To reduce to fine powder; a finely divided powder.

+tropacocaine.+ An alkaloid from Java coca leaves, used as a local
anesthetic.

+trophe (nourishment).+ Hypertrophy, overgrowth; atrophy, lack of
nourishment.

+trophic.+ Relating to or dependent upon nutrition.

+trypsin.+ A proteolytic ferment of pancreatic fluid.

+tubercle.+ A circumscribed elevation on the skin, mucous membrane or
surface of an organ; the lesion of tuberculosis.

+tuberosity.+ A small rounded elevation on a bony surface.

+tumor.+ A swelling or tumefaction.

+tylosis.+ Formation of a callosity.

+typhoid fever.+ An acute infectious disease caused by the bacillus
typhosus.

+U+

+ulcer (ulcus).+ A lesion of a cutaneous or mucous surface usually
attended by suppuration.

+ulceration.+ The process of ulcer formation.

+unguentum Crede.+ An ointment of colloidal silver, 15: distilled water,
5; white wax, 10; benzoinated lard, 70 parts. Used as an inunction.

+urates.+ Salts of uric acid.

+urea.+ An end-product of metabolism excreted in the urine.

+ureter.+ A tube carrying urine from the kidney to the bladder.

+urethra.+ A canal from the bladder thru which the urine is discharged.

+uria (urine).+ As in glycosuria, the excretion of sugar (glucose) in
the urine.

+urology.+ The subject which has to do with urinary modifications in
disease.

+V+

+vaccine.+ The modified virus of any disease, which, when inoculated,
protects against the action of the unmodified virus.

+vaccination.+ The injection of a killed culture of a specific bacterium
as a means of prophylaxis or cure of the disease caused by that
microorganism.

+valgus.+ One who is bow-legged or has knock-knees.

+varix.+ An enlarged and tortuous vein, artery or lymphatic vessel.

+vasoconstrictor.+ An agent or a nerve which causes narrowing of the
blood vessels.

+vasodilator.+ An agent or a nerve which causes dilatation of the blood
vessels.

+vein.+ A blood-vessel carrying blood toward the heart.

+venous.+ Pertaining to a vein.

+verruca+ (pr. verrucae). Wart.

+vertebra.+ A bony segment of the spinal column.

+vesicle.+ A small blister or sac containing serum.

+villus (pl. villi).+ A minute projection from the surface, especially
of a mucous membrane.

+viscus (viscera).+ An internal organ especially of the abdominal
cavity.

+W+

+Wart.+ A circumscribed hypertrophy of the papillae of the corium
covered by thickened epidermis.

+Wassermann’s test.+ A diagnostic test for syphilis, based upon the
theory of complement fixation.

+wen.+ A sebaceous cyst, especially one occurring on the scalp.

+whitlow.+ See paronychia.

+X+

+xeroderma.+ Roughening of the skin from diminished secretion.

+X-rays.+ The ethereal waves or pulsations from a Crookes’ tube from the
bombardment of the anode target with the cathode rays.

+Z+

+zinc chloride.+ A caustic sulphate. An astringent.

+zymotic.+ Relating to fermentation; noting an infectious disease.

CROSS REFERENCE INDEX

   A

   Abscess
     acute, 65
     chronic, 66
     symptoms, 66
     treatment, 66

   Acquired club foot, 191

   Acquired flat foot, 178

   Actinomycosis, 136
     causes, 137
     symptoms, 137
     treatment, 137

   Active hyperemia, 196
     indications for therapeutic uses, 196

   Actual cautery, 200
     uses, 200

   Acute abscess, 65
     causes, 65
     diagnosis, 65
     symptoms, 66
     treatment, 66

   Acute rheumatism, 97
     causes, 97
     diagnosis, 97
     symptoms, 97
     treatment, 97

   Acute synovitis, 86
     causes, 86
     diagnosis, 86
     symptoms, 86
     treatment, 86

   Adhesive plaster, 215

   Adrenaline, 211

   Alcohol, 25

   Alkaloids, 9

   Alum, 210

   Alypin, 251

   Ameboid, 29

   Ammoniated mercury, 212

   Amyl nitrite, 45

   Anaerobic bacteria, 8

   Anesthesia, local, 229

   Ankle joint, 165
     dislocations, 172
     backward, 172
     forward, 172
     injuries, 172
     outward, 173
     sprains, 176
     diagnosis, 176
     symptoms, 176
     treatment, 177

   Ankylosis, 94
     fibrous, 94
     bony, 94

   Antiseptic method, 20

   Antisepsis, 19

   Antiseptics, 22

   Appearance of varicose ulcers, 68

   Appendicitis, 17

   Application of skin grafts, 226

   Aqueous solution of ichthyol, 208

   Argyrol, 26

   Aristol, 24

   Arterial bleeding, 55

   Arthritis, 88
     acute, 88
     causes, 89
     chronic, 90
     diagnosis, 90
     symptoms, 91
     treatment, 91
     varieties, 89
     Charcot, 98
     gonorrhoeal, 95
     gouty, 97
     infective, 98
     rheumatic, 97
     septic, 90
     syphilitic, 95
     traumatic, 90
     tubercular, 92

   Arthrotomy, 173

   Arterial hyperemia, 196
     indications, 196
     technic, 195

   Arteriosclerosis, 117

   Articular fractures, 159

   Asepsis, agents, 19
     drugs employed, 21
     technic, 21

   Aseptic methods, 21

   Astragalus dislocation, 172

   Astragalus fracture, 168

   Astringent powders, 210
     alum, 210
     stearate of zinc, 210
     zinc, 210

   Asepsis in the management of wounds, 39

   Atrophy of bone, 100
     causes, 100
     symptoms, 100
     treatment, 100

   B

   Backward dislocations
     ankle, 172

   Bacteria, 6
     aerobic, 8
     anerobic, 8
     alkaloidal, 9
     cultivation, 10
     classification, 7
     destruction, 12
     effect of oxygen, 8
     elimination, 11
     facultative, 8
     ferments, 10
     habitat, 7
     infection, 10
     immunity, 12
     temperature effect of, 8, 14
     toxins, 9
     pathogenic, 6
     saprophytic, 6
     surgical import, 15

   Balsam of Peru, 210

   Bandages, 215
     elastic, 219
     flannel, 215
     French bandage of foot, 218
     gauze, 214
     ideal, 214
     muslin, 214
     plaster, 164
     rubber, 214, 219
     spica bandage of foot, 218
     spica bandage of toe, 217
     spiral bandage of toe, 217

   Bandaging, 215
     indications, 215
     method, 216
     technic, 216

   Benign tumors, 114, 152
     adenoma, 114
     chondroma, 114
     fibroma, 153
     lipoma, 153
     lymphoma, 154
     myoma, 154
     osteoma, 115

   Bichloride solution, 22
     strength, 22

   Bicycle foot, 138
     symptoms, 138
     treatment, 138

   Bier’s, arterial hyperemia, 196
     indications, 196
     technic, 195
     venous hyperemia, 195

   Bismuth subgallate, 210

   Black mustard, 199

   Blastomycotic ulcer, 79
     diagnosis, 79
     symptoms, 79
     treatment, 79

   Bleeding, 54
     control of, 54

   Blue ointment, 133, 212

   Bone
     atrophy, 100
     caries, 101
     congenital defects, 99
     hypertrophy, 101
     necrosis, 102
     osteitis, 105
     osteomyelitis, 105
     periostitis, 103
     senile atrophy, 100
     tumors, 114

   Boric acid, 25
     ointment, 212
     powder, 210
     solution, 208

   Brandy, 47

   Bromides, 48

   Bunion, 84, 185

   Burns, 56
     causes, 56
     degrees, 57, 58
     pathology, 57, 58
     symptoms, 59
     treatment, 60
     varieties, 57

   Bursitis, 82
     acute, 83
     chronic, 83
     diseases of the bursa, 82
     symptoms, 83
     treatment, 83

   Burow’s solution, 208
     formula, 208
     indications, 35, 208
     preparation, 208

   C

   Calomel, 210

   Callosity, 141
     causes, 141
     definition, 141
     symptoms, 141
     treatment, 141, 142

   Callous ulcers, 67
     causes, 67
     diagnosis, 67
     symptoms, 68
     treatment, 68

   Cancer, 51

   Carbolic acid, 13
     dangers, 22
     gangrene, 121
     poisoning, 13
     uses, 22

   Caries, 101
     symptoms, 101
     treatment, 102

   Cartilage, 88

   Catgut, 46
     uses, 46
     varieties, 46

   Cautery, 200
     how applied, 200
     when indicated, 200

   Cells, 36

   Cellulitis, 136
     cause, 136
     symptoms, 136
     treatment, 136

   Chancre, 131

   Charcot’s disease, 98

   Chauffeur’s foot, 138
     cause, 138
     symptoms, 138
     treatment, 138

   Chemical antiseptics
     uses, 13

   Chemotaxis, 31

   Chloroform liniment, 197

   Chilblain, 63
     symptoms, 63
     treatment, 63

   Chinese lady foot, 193

   Chondromata, 154
     symptoms, 154
     treatment, 154

   Chronic bursitis, 83
     osteomyelitis, 110
     periostitis, 104
     syphilis, 132
     synovitis, 87
     tuberculosis, 134

   Chyle, 5

   Circulatory system, 3

   Clavus, 142

   Clawed toes, 183

   Clinicial stages of burns, 57

   Club foot, 188

   Cocaine, 243
     preparations, 243
     strength of sols., 244
     uses, 244

   Cocoon dressing, 207
     description, 207
     indications, 207

   Cold, 197
     the effects of, 34, 62
     treatment, 62

   Cold compress, 197
     indications, 197

   Collodion dressings, 207
     indications, 207

   Comminuted fractures, 158
     symptoms, 158
     treatment, 158

   Compound fractures, 161
     diagnosis, 161
     symptoms, 161
     treatment, 161

   Contusions, 41
     symptoms, 42
     treatment, 43

   Contused wounds, 41
     diagnosis, 42
     symptoms, 42
     treatment, 43

   Contagious warts, 139

   Congenital club foot, 188

   Congenital defects of bone, 99

   Congenital flat foot, 178

   Counterirritants
     indications, 199

   Copper sulphate, 210

   Corn or clavus, 142
     symptoms, 142
     treatment, 142
     varieties, 142

   Corrosive sublimate, 46

   Crede’s ointment, 26

   Creolin, 23
     strength of sol., 23
     uses, 23

   Cysts, 154
     bone, 117
     diagnosis, 154
     sebaceous, 154
     symptoms, 154
     treatment, 155
     varieties, 154

   D

   Dakin’s solution, 209
     how prepared, 209
     indications, 209
     method of use, 209

   Dead bone
     symptoms, 102
     treatment, 102

   Depressed fractures, 157

   Demarcation in gangrene, 122

   Dermatol, 210

   Dermatitis, 135
     symptoms, 135
     treatment, 136

   Diabetic
     gangrene, 120
     ulcers, 75

   Diapedesis, 31

   Diaphysis of bone, 158

   Digitalis, 45

   Direction of the line of fracture, 157

   Diseases of the
     arteries, 118
     bones, 105
       caries, 101
       necrosis, 102
       osteitis, 105
       osteomyelitis, 105
       periostitis, 105
     joints, 170
     lymphatics, 5
     veins, 127

   Dislocations, 170
     ankle joint, 172
     astragalus, 175
     diagnosis, 171
     metatarsal bones, 176
     subastragaloid, 174
     symptoms, 172
     toes, 176
     treatment, 171, 173

   Drainage
     indications for, 46
     methods of, 46

   Dressings, 207
     dry, 207
     wet, 207

   Dry dressings, 207
     materials used, 207
     indications for, 207

   E

   Early diagnosis of
     carcinoma, 153
     syphilis, 130
     tuberculosis, 133

   Ecchymosis, 42

   Electricity, 201
     uses, 201

   Electrolysis, 201
     method of application, 141, 201

   Elastic stocking
     application, 126
     uses, 126

   Elevated position for treatment of varicose veins, 126

   Elongated veins
     significance, 126

   Embolism, 119
     causes, 119
     diagnosis, 119
     symptoms, 119
     treatment, 119

   Endarteritis obliterans, 120
     symptoms, 120
     treatment, 120

   Enteroclysis, 45
     indications, 45

   Epitheliomatous ulcer, 79
     causes, 79
     diagnosis, 80
     symptoms, 80
     treatment, 80

   Epiphysis of bone, 158

   Erysipelas, 135
     causes, 135
     diagnosis, 135
     symptoms, 135
     treatment, 136

   Escharotics, 210
     indications, 210
     methods of application, 210

   Esmarch bandage, 214
     where indicated, 215
     technic, 219

   Ethyl chloride, 252

   Extirpation of
     tumors, 117
     varicose veins, 126

   Exuberant granulations, 68

   F

   Faradism, 201
     indications for, 201
     technic of, 201

   Ferments, 9, 10

   Fibromata, 114
     diagnosis, 114
     symptoms, 114
     treatment, 114

   Fibrous ankylosis, 94
     causes, 94
     treatment 94

   First aid
     in accidents, 60
     in fractures, 162

   First degree of burns, 57
     pathology, 57
     symptoms, 57
     treatment, 57

   Firm bandaging
     technic, 216

   Fission, 37

   Fissure, 64
     diagnosis, 64
     treatment, 64

   Fistula, 64
     definition, 64
     diagnosis, 64
     treatment, 64

   Flannel bandages, 214
     method of application, 215
     uses, 215

   Flat foot, 178
     acquired, 178
     causes, 179
     congenital, 178
     diagnosis, 180
     operation treatment, 183
     pathology, 179
     prognosis, 181
     spastic, 180
     rigid, 182
     supports, 181
     symptoms, 180
     treatment, 181

   Flat foot
     from child birth, 179
     from excessive weight, 179
     from prolonged fractures, 179

   Flexed toes, 183
     diagnosis, 184
     symptoms, 184
     treatment, 184

   Fluctuation, 66

   Forward dislocations, 172
     at the ankle joint, 172
     diagnosis, 172
     symptoms, 173
     treatment, 173

   Formaldehyde, 14
     uses, 23

   Fractures, 156
     astragalus, 168
     causes, 159
     classification, 156
     comminuted, 158
     complete, 156
     complicated, 161
     compound, 161
     depressed, 157
     diagnosis, 166
     epiphyseal separations, 158
     etiology, 159
     fibula, 165
     fissured, 157
     fixation method, 165
     greenstick, 156
     impacted, 158
     joint, 158
     line of, 157
     location, 158
     number, 161
     metatarsal, 169
     multiple, 161
     operative, 164
     os calcis, 168
     pathologic, 160
     Pott’s, 165
     recent, 162
     reduction, 163
     simple, 161
     tarsal, 167
     tibia, 165
     treatment, 162, 166, 167
     varieties, 157
     violence, 160

   French bandage of the foot, 218

   Frigorism (trench foot), 137
     causes, 137
     diagnosis, 137
     symptoms, 137
     treatment, 137

   Frost Bite, 63

   Furuncle, 66
     causes, 66
     symptoms, 66
     treatment, 67

   G

   Galvanism, 201
     indications, 201
     method of application, 201

   Galvano-cautery, 200
     indications, 200
     method of application, 200

   Gauze
     aseptic, 44
     iodoform, 24
     uses, 44

   Gangrene, 118
     arteriosclerosis, 118
     carbolic acid, 121
     cold, 120
     diabetic, 120
     dry, 118
     endarteritis obliterans, 120
     embolism, 120
     moist, 119, 122

   Gelatin, uses, 219

   Germs, 6
     bacillus coli communis, 17
     bacillus pyocyaneus, 15
     bacillus tetani, 17
     bacillus tuberculosis, 17
     bacillus typhosis, 17
     micrococcus gonorrhoeae, 16
     spirochaeta pallida, 15
     staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, 16
     staphylococcus pyogenes albus, 16
     staphylococcus pyogenes citreus, 16
     streptococcus pyogenes, 16

   Glycerine, uses, 219

   Gonorrhoeal arthritis, 95
     causes, 95
     diagnosis, 95
     symptoms, 96
     treatment, 96

   Gouty arthritis, 97

   Granulations, 68

   Green stick fracture, 156
     symptoms, 156
     treatment, 156

   Gun shot wounds, 39
     symptoms, 39
     treatment, 39

   H

   Hematoma, 42
     definition, 42
     diagnosis, 42
     symptoms, 42
     treatment, 42

   Hallux valgus, 185
     causes, 185
     operative measures, 187
     pathology, 185
     symptoms, 185
     treatment, 186, 187

   Hallux flexus, 183
     symptoms, 183
     treatment, 183

   Hammer toe, 183
     diagnosis, 183
     symptoms, 183
     treatment, 183

   Heat, 14, 197
     effects, 14, 34
     dry, 14, 19
     moist, 14, 20

   Heloma, 142
     definition, 142
     causes, 142
     diagnosis, 142
     pathology, 142
     radical cure, 144
     pathology, 142
     radical cure, 144
     symptoms, 142
     treatment, 143
     varieties, 142

   Hemoglobin, 42

   Hemophilia, 51

   Hemorrhage, 51
     arterial, 51
     capillary, 45, 51
     causes, 51
     control, 44, 52
     in chiropody, 53
     spontaneous, 51
     venous, 51
     treatment, 44, 52, 54

   Hemostatics, 54

   Hereditary syphilis, 130
     diagnosis, 130
     symptoms, 131
     treatment, 132

   High frequency current, 198
     indications for, 198
     method of application, 198

   Horny tissue
     where found, 57
     treatment, 58

   Housemaid’s knee, 83

   Hydrastine, uses, 211

   Hydrochloride of cocaine
     indications for, 243

   Hydrogen peroxide, 24, 211

   Hyperemia, 194
     arterial or active, 196
     methods of application, 195
     uses, 196
     venous or passive, 195

   Hypertrophy of bone, 101
     causes, 101
     symptoms, 101
     treatment, 101

   Hypertrophy of nails, 148
     causes, 148
     pathology, 149
     symptoms, 149
     treatment, 149, 150

   Ichthyol
     ointment, 212
     solution, 208
     uses, 212

   Immunity, 12
     acquired, 12
     inherited, 12
     natural, 12
     resistance to, 12
     susceptibility to, 12

   Impacted fractures, 158
     causes, 158
     diagnosis, 158
     symptoms, 158
     treatment, 158

   Injuries to the ankle
     contusions, 41
     dislocations, 172
     fractures, 168
     inflammations, 89
     sprains, 176

   Inflammation, 28
     bone, 105
     bursae, 82
     causes, 28
     definition, 28
     emigration, 30
     etiology, 28
     exudation, 29
     diapedesis, 31
     pathology, 28
     periosteum, 103
     phenomena, 32
     resolution, 32
     serous membranes, 84
     sloughing, 32
     suppuration, 33
     symptoms, 32
     synovial membranes, 84
     treatment, 34
     varieties, 34

   Incised wounds, 39
     symptoms, 40
     treatment, 44

   Indolent ulcers
     causes, 67
     diagnosis, 67
     symptoms, 67
     treatment, 67

   Infective arthritis, 95
     causes, 96
     diagnosis, 96
     symptoms, 96
     treatment, 96

   Ingrowing toe nail, 145
     causes, 145
     diagnosis, 145
     operations, 148
     symptoms, 145
     treatment, 146, 147, 148
     varieties, 148

   Injuries of the bursae, 82
     diagnosis, 82
     symptoms, 82
     treatment, 83

   Injuries of the bone
     contusion, 41
     dislocation, 170
     fracture, 156

   Interpretation of radiograms
     their diagnostic value, 203

   Inunction of mercury, 133
     indications, 133
     preparation, 133
     technic, 133

   Iodin
     preparations, 24
     uses, 24

   Iodoform
     gauze, 24
     ointment, 24
     powder, 24
     poisoning, 24

   J

   Joint fractures, 158
     diagnosis, 158
     symptoms, 158
     treatment, 158

   K

   Knives
     method of sterilization, 21

   Kreolin, 13

   L

   Lacerated wounds, 40
     causes, 40
     diagnosis, 40
     symptoms, 40
     treatment, 44

   Lassar’s paste, 212
     formula, 212
     indications, 212

   Lead and opium wash, 208
     formula, 208
     indications, 208

   Leukocytosis, 26
     definition, 26
     interpretation, 26
     value, 26

   Ligaments
     injuries, 176

   Ligatures, 46
     uses, 46
     varieties, 46

   Ligation of varicose veins, 126
     methods, 126
     technic, 126

   Lime water, 209

   Liquor ferri subsulphatis (Monsel’s sol.), 211
     formula, 211
     method of application, 211
     uses, 211

   Liquor calcis, 209
     formula, 209
     uses, 209

   Liquor plumbi subacetatis, 208
     formula, 208
     indications, 208

   Local anesthesia, 229
     advantages, 234
     alypin, 251
     cocaine, 243
     drugs employed, 243
     edemitization method, 242, 246
     endermic method, 241, 245
     essentials, 237
     general principles, 233, 234, 237, 238
     history, 229
     methods of application, 241
     nerve blocking, 242
     physiologic effects, 232
     preparation of instruments, 240
     preparation of patient, 240
     novocaine, 250
     objections to, 236
     quinine and urea hydrochloride, 249
     Schleich’s sol., 246
     stovaine, 251
     strength of solutions, 244
     technic, 241
     toxicology, 247

   Local treatment of
     arthritis, 91
     bursitis, 83
     periostitis, 103
     osteomyelitis, 94
     phlebitis, 128
     synovitis, 87

   Location of
     dislocations, 170
     fractures, 156
     sprains, 176
     ulcers, 70

   Locomotor ataxia, 75
     causes, 75
     diagnosis, 75
     foot manifestations, 76, 77
     treatment, 78

   Longitudinal fractures
     diagnosis, 157
     treatment, 157

   Loose bandage
     objections to, 215

   Lutein
     diagnostic value, 73
     reaction, 73
     technic, 73

   Lymphatic system, 5

   Lysol, uses, 23

   M

   Malposition in fractures, 164
     treatment, 164

   Malignant growths, 115, 152
     carcinoma, 115, 152
     diagnosis, 115
     sarcoma, 115, 153
     symptoms, 115
     treatment, 115

   Martin’s bandage, 195
     indications, 195
     how applied, 195

   Massage, 201
     indications, 44
     technic, 202
     varieties, 202

   Mayo’s operation, 127
     how performed, 127
     when indicated, 127

   Mechanical theory of tabes
     explanation of, 75

   Mercury
     preparations, 133
     uses, 132

   Metatarsalgia, 184
     diagnosis, 184
     symptoms, 184
     treatment, 184

   Methods of
     disinfection, 20
     immobilization of fractures, 165
     fixation of fractures, 165

   Microorganisms, 6
     definition, 6
     non-pathogenic, 6
     varieties, 6

   Moist gangrene, 119
     causes, 118, 119
     diagnosis, 119
     symptoms, 119
     treatment, 121
     varieties, 119

   Monsel’s sol., 211
     formula, 211
     indications, 211
     uses, 211

   Monochloracetic acid
     uses, 210

   Morton’s disease, 184
     causes, 184
     diagnosis, 184
     symptoms, 184
     treatment, 184

   Motorman’s foot, 138
     causes, 138
     diagnosis, 138
     symptoms, 138
     treatment, 138

   Multiple varicose veins
     location, 125
     treatment, 126

   Muslin bandage
     uses, 214

   Mustard
     uses of, 199

   Muriate of cocaine, 214
     how used, 214
     when indicated, 214

   Myeloma, 116
     causes, 116
     diagnosis, 116
     symptoms, 116
     treatment, 116

   N

   Nails, 150
     diseases, 150
     inflammation, 150
     hypertrophy, 148
     symptoms, 150
     treatment, 150, 151

   Necrosis, 102
     definition, 102
     causes, 102
     diagnosis, 102
     symptoms, 102
     treatment, 102

   Needle in foot, 40
     diagnosis, 40
     treatment, 40
     value of X-ray, 40

   Neosalvarsan (914), 133
     how prepared, 133
     indications, 133
     technic, 133

   Nerve theory
     cause for tabes, 75

   Nerve pressure
     effect, 242

   Nerve blocking
     in local anesthesia, 242

   Nervous system, 3

   Neuropathic joints, 98
     diagnosis, 98
     symptoms, 98
     treatment, 98

   Nicolaier’s bacillus, 17

   Nitric acid
     uses, 210

   Nitrate of silver, 25
     different sols., 26
     stick, 26
     uses, 26, 210

   Novocaine, 250
     how prepared, 250
     advantages, 250
     indications, 250
     uses, 250

   Nucleus, 36

   Number of fragments in fractures, 161

   Number of ulcers on leg, 73

   O

   Obtaining a sounder scar, 227
     in skin grafting, 228
     in the treatment of ulcers, 222

   Oblique fractures, 157

   Ointments, 212
     balsam of Peru, 212
     boric acid, 212
     Crede, 26
     ichthyol, 212
     indications, 212
     Lassar’s paste, 212
     mercurial, 212
     salicylic acid, 211
     scarlet red, 213, 214
     zinc oxide, 212

   Oleate of mercury
     indications, 133

   Onychia
     hypertrophy, 148
     inflammation, 150
     symptoms, 150
     treatment, 151

   Operations
     flat foot, 181
     fractures, 164
     hallux valgus, 187
     osteitis, 94
     necrosis of bone, 102
     osteomyelitis, 94
     periostitis, 103
     varicose veins, 126

   Ordinary saline sol., 208
     how prepared, 208
     indications, 208
     methods of injection, 45

   Orthoform
     uses, 210

   Os calcis
     dislocations, 175
     fracture, 168

   Osteitis, 105
     causes, 105
     deformans, 113
     diagnosis, 105
     symptoms, 105
     treatment, 105

   Osteitis deformans, 113
     causes, 113
     diagnosis, 113
     symptoms, 113
     treatment, 113

   Osteomalacia, 113
     causes, 113
     diagnosis, 113
     onset, 113
     symptoms, 113
     treatment, 113

   Osteomyelitis, 105
     acute, 105
     causes, 105
     chronic, 110
     diagnosis, 106
     infective, 107
     symptoms, 107
     syphilitic, 111
     tubercular, 109
     treatment, 109, 114

   Os trigonum
     location, 168

   Oxygen, 26

   Ozone, 26

   P

   Paget’s disease, 113
     symptoms, 113
     treatment, 113

   Painful heel, 184
     causes, 184
     symptoms, 184
     treatment, 184

   Palliative treatment of veins, 126
     bandaging, 126
     Unna’s paste, 219

   Parasiticides
     alcohol, 25
     carbolic acid, 13
     formaldehyde, 23
     iodin, 24
     heat, 34
     mercury, 133

   Passive hyperemia, 195
     contraindications, 194
     indications, 195
     technic of application, 195

   Pastes
     Lassar’s, 212
     Unna’s, 219

   Pathogenic bacteria, 6

   Periostitis, 103
     acute, 103
     causes, 103
     chronic, 104
     diagnosis, 103
     symptoms, 104
     treatment, 103
     varieties, 103

   Perforating ulcer, 75
     causes, 75
     diagnosis, 75
     symptoms, 75
     treatment, 77

   Peroxide of hydrogen
     uses, 14, 24, 211

   Pes cavus, 193

   Pes planus, 178
     causes, 179
     diagnosis, 180
     symptoms, 180
     treatment, 181
     varieties, 179

   Phagocytosis, 11, 31

   Phenol
     gangrene from, 22
     other name, 22
     poisoning, 22
     uses, 22

   Phlebitis, 127
     causes, 127
     diagnosis, 127
     preventive measures, 128
     operations, 129
     symptoms, 127
     treatment, 128
     varieties, 127

   Phlegmon
     treatment, 195

   Picric acid
     uses, 60

   Plaster of Paris, 164
     how applied, 164
     indications, 164

   Poisoned wounds, 39
     symptoms, 39
     treatment, 39

   Poisoning by
     carbolic acid, 13

   Potassium permanganate, 25

   Powders, 210
     aristol, 24, 210
     alum, 210
     boric acid, 210
     dermatol, 210
     calomel, 210
     iodoform, 24, 210
     orthoform, 210
     protonuclein, 210
     scarlet red, 210
     stearate of zinc, 210
     talcum, 210
     zinc oxide, 210
     indications, 210
     uses, 210

   Powdered white oxide of zinc
     uses, 219

   Preparation of instruments for operations, 21

   Preparation of field of operation, 20
     dressings, 20
     hands, 21
     instruments, 21
     skin, 21

   Preparation of an ulcer for skin grafting, 222

   Primary syphilis, 131
     causes, 131
     diagnosis, 131
     symptoms, 131
     treatment, 131
     stage of, 131
     incubation, 131

   Protargol
     uses, 26

   Protiodide of mercury
     dose, 133
     uses, 133

   Protonuclein, 14
     as a powder for wounds, 210
     as a tablet internally, 210

   Ptomaines, 9
     definition, 9
     poisoning by, 9
     symptoms, 9
     treatment, 9

   Punctured wounds, 40
     symptoms, 40
     treatment, 40

   Pus
     causes, 33
     symptoms, 33
     treatment, 33

   Pyemia, 47, 50
     definition, 50
     symptoms, 50
     treatment, 50

   Q

   Quinine and urea hydrochloride, 249
     indications, 249

   R

   Radiograms
     value of, 205

   Ray fungus
     other name, 136
     symptoms, 137
     treatment, 137

   Raynaud’s disease, 119
     diagnosis, 119
     symptoms, 119, 121
     traumatic, 124
     treatment, 119, 123, 124
     thrombosis, 120
     varieties, 118

   Reduction of fractures
     method of, 163

   Red wash, 210
     formula, 210
     indications, 210

   Results of
     skin grafting, 228

   Repair of wounds, 36
     by primary union, 37
     by granulation tissue, 38
     by second intention, etc., 37

   Resolution
     significance of, 32

   Reverdin’s method of skin grafting, 223
     indications, 223
     technic, 223

   Rheumatic arthritis, 96
     diagnosis, 97
     symptoms, 97
     treatment, 97

   Rigid flat foot, 182
     causes, 182
     diagnosis, 182
     symptoms, 182
     treatment, 183

   Rubber bandage, 214
     indications, 215
     technic, 219

   Rubefacients, 199
     indications, 199
     method of use, 199

   Rupture of tendo Achillis, 168
     diagnosis, 168
     symptoms, 168
     treatment, 168

   S

   Salicylate of mercury, 133
     indications, 133
     method used, 133

   Salvarsan (606), 133
     how prepared, 133
     indications, 133
     technic, 133

   Saprophytic bacteria, 6
     definition, 6
     symptoms, 6
     treatment, 6

   Sapremia, 49
     definition, 49
     symptoms, 49
     treatment, 49

   Sarcoma, 153
     definition, 153
     manifestations, 153
     symptoms, 153
     treatment, 153

   Saturated sols. boric acid, 25
     how prepared, 208
     indications, 208

   Scarlet red, 213
     formula, 214
     indications, 213
     ointment, 213
     powder, 210
     symptoms of poisoning, 213
     treatment, 214

   Schede’s method of operating for varicose veins, 126

   Schizomycetes, 6

   Sebaceous cyst, 154
     diagnosis, 154
     symptoms, 154
     treatment, 154

   Secondary syphilis, 132
     stages, 132
     symptoms, 132
     treatment, 132

   Senility
     as a cause of disease, 100

   Senile atrophy, 100
     symptoms, 100
     treatment, 100

   Septic arthritis, 90

   Septic phlebitis, 127
     causes, 127
     diagnosis, 127
     symptoms, 127
     treatment, 128

   Septicemia, 48
     causes, 48
     definition, 48
     symptoms, 48
     treatment, 48

   Sepsis, 18
     causes, 18
     diagnosis, 18
     symptoms, 18
     treatment, 18

   Sequestra, 93

   Serum therapy
     indications of, 50, 135
     value of, 135

   Skin grafting, 222
     application of grafts, 226
     after results, 228
     indications, 222
     methods, 223
     technic, 224, 225

   Sloughing, 34
     causes, 34
     symptoms, 34
     treatment, 34

   Silver nitrate, 14
     solutions, 210
     uses, 221

   Sinus, 64
     causes, 64
     definition, 64
     diagnosis, 64
     symptoms, 64
     treatment, 65

   Sodium hydroxide
     uses, 141

   Sodium sulphide, 149

   Solutions, 208
     boric acid, 208
     black wash, 209
     bichloride of mercury, 208
     balsam Peru, 208
     carbolic acid, 121
     copper sulphate, 210
     Dakins, 209
     lead and opium wash, 208
     monochloracetic acid, 210
     nitric acid, 210
     red wash, 210
     salicylic acid, 25
     saline, 26, 208
     silver nitrate, 210
     sterile water, 208
     Thiersch’s, 208
     white wash, 209
     zinc sulphate, 210

   Solvents, 211
     salicylic acid, 211
     sodium hydroxide, 212

   Spastic flat foot, 180

   Spica bandage, 217
     of the foot, 218
     of the toes, 217

   Spina bifida, 76

   Spiral bandage of the great toe, 217
     technic of application, 217

   Special forms of inflammation
     erysipelas, 135
     gonorrhoea, 95
     syphilis, 130
     tuberculosis, 133
     tetanus, 134

   Spontaneous hemorrhage, 51
     causes, 51
     treatment, 52

   Spiral fractures, 157
     diagnosis, 157
     symptoms, 157
     treatment, 157

   Sprains, 176
     definition, 176
     diagnosis, 177
     symptoms, 176
     treatment, 177

   Static electricity
     indications, 201

   Staphylococcus pyogenes
     albus, 16
     aureus, 16
     citreus, 16

   Sterilization, 12
     methods, 20
     of the dressings, 20
     of the feet, 22
     of the hands, 21
     of the instruments, 21

   Stovaine
     preparations, 251
     uses, 45

   Streptococcus pyogenes, 16

   Strychnine, 45
     preparations, 45
     uses, 45

   Styptics, 211
     definition of, 211
     adrenaline, 211
     hydrastine, 211
     iodin, 211
     Monsel’s sol., 211
     peroxide of hydrogen, 211
     alum, 211
     copper, 211
     nitrate of silver, 211, 220

   Stockings, 216
     elastic, 216
     rubber, 216
     uses, 216

   Sugar in the urine, 120
     significance, 120
     treatment, 120

   Subastragaloid dislocations
     causes, 174
     diagnosis, 174
     symptoms, 174
     treatment, 174

   Supports for flat foot, 181
     indications, 181
     uses, 181
     varieties, 181

   Suppurative phlebitis, 127
     causes, 127
     symptoms, 127
     treatment, 127

   Sunlight
     value, 27

   Sutures, 46
     uses, 46
     varieties, 46

   Symptoms of
     abscess, 66
     actinomycosis, 136
     arthritis, 91
     blastomycotic ulcer, 79
     burns, 58
     bursitis, 83
     callosity, 141
     callous ulcers, 68
     carbolic acid poisoning, 13
     caries, 101
     cellulitis, 136
     chilblain, 63
     contusions, 42
     cysts, 154
     dermatitis, 135
     diabetic gangrene, 120
     dislocations, 120
     embolism, 119
     erysipelas, 135
     fibromata, 114
     fistula, 64
     flexed toes, 184
     fractures, 156
     frigorism, 137
     furuncle, 66
     gangrene, 118
     gonorrhoeal arthritis, 95
     gunshot wounds, 39
     heloma, 142, 143
     hematoma, 42
     hallux flexus, 183
     hallux valgus, 185
     hemorrhage, 52
     hypertrophy of bone, 101
     incised wounds, 40
     inflammation, 32
     ingrowing toe nail, 145
     joint fractures, 158
     locomotor ataxia, 75
     malignant growths, 152
     moist gangrene, 119
     Morton’s disease, 184
     motorman’s foot, 138
     myeloma, 116
     necrosis, 102
     neuropathic joints, 98
     onychia, 150
     osteitis, 105
     osteoma, 115
     osteomalacia, 113
     osteomyelitis, 113
     Paget’s disease, 113
     painful heel, 184
     periostitis, 104
     perforating ulcer, 76
     pes planus, 180
     phlebitis, 127
     primary syphilis, 131
     pus, 33
     pyemia, 50
     Raynaud’s disease, 119
     rigid flat foot, 183
     rupture of tendo Achillis, 168
     sapremia, 149
     sebaceous cyst, 154
     secondary syphilis, 132
     septic phlebitis, 127
     septicemia, 48
     sinus, 64
     sprains, 176
     synovitis, 86
     syphilis, 130
     syphilitic ulcers, 72
     talipes (various forms), 189
     tetanus, 135
     thrombosis, 118
     ulcers (various forms), 70
     verruca, 139
     wounds (different), 44

   Synovitis, 86
     acute, 86
     causes, 86
     chronic, 87
     symptoms, 87
     treatment, 87

   Syphilis, 130
     acquired, 130
     causes, 130
     gummata, 132
     hereditary, 130
     periods of symptoms, 131
     primary, 131
     secondary, 132

     symptoms, 132
     transmission, 130
     treatment, 132, 133

   Syphilitic arthritis, 95

   Syphilitic ulcers, 72
     causes, 72
     differential diagnosis, 73
     symptoms, 72
     treatment, 74

   Syringomyelitis, 76

   T

   Talipes, 188
     acquired, 192
     causes, 188
     congenital, 188
     diagnosis, 190
     pathology, 189
     prognosis, 190
     symptoms, 189
     treatment, 190
     various forms, 192, 193

   Tenotomy, 191

   Tertiary syphilis, 133
     causes, 133
     diagnosis, 133
     symptoms, 133
     treatment, 134

   Terminations of inflammation, 32
     chronic, 33
     necrosis, 32
     resolution, 32
     suppuration, 33

   Tetanus, 134
     causes, 134
     diagnosis, 135
     symptoms, 135
     treatment, 135

   Tetanus antitoxin, 135
     indications, 135
     value, 135

   Thiersch’s skin grafting, 223
     indications, 223
     method, 224

   Thrombus
     definition, 118

   Thrombosis
     diagnosis, 118
     symptoms, 119
     treatment, 119

   Tourniquet, 53

   Toxalbumins
     definition, 9

   Toxemia, 47

   Toxins, 9
     definition, 9
     products, 9

   Traumatic arthritis, 90
     symptoms, 90
     treatment, 90

   Treatment of
     abscess, 66
     arthritis, acute, 91
     arthritis, chronic, 91
     arthritis, septic, 91
     arthritis, traumatic, 91
     actinomycotic ulcer, 79
     blastomycotic ulcer, 79
     burns, 60
     bursitis, 83
     callosity, 142
     callous ulcers, 88
     carbolic acid gangrene, 121
     carbolic acid poisoning, 13
     caries, 102
     cellulitis, 136
     chilblain, 63
     contusions, 43
     cysts, 154
     dermatitis, 136
     diabetic gangrene, 120
     dislocation of the ankle, 172
     dislocation of the astragalus, 175
     embolism, 119
     erysipelas, 136
     fibromata, 114
     fistula, 64
     flexed toes, 184
     fracture of the astragalus, 168
     fracture of the fibula, 165
     fracture of the os calcis, 168
     fracture of the metatarsal bones, 169
     fracture of the tarsal bones, 167
     fracture of the tibia, 165
     frigorism, 127
     furuncle, 67
     gangrene, 123
     gonorrhoeal arthritis, 95
     gunshot wounds, 39
     hematoma, 42
     hallux flexus, 183
     hallux valgus, 187
     hammer toe, 183
     heloma (all forms), 143
     hemorrhage, 54
     hypertrophy of bone, 101
     incised wounds, 44
     inflammation, 34
     ingrowing toe nail, 147
     joint fractures, 158
     locomotor ataxia, 75
     malignant growths, 152
     moist gangrene, 121
     Morton’s disease, 184
     motorman’s foot, 138
     myeloma, 116
     necrosis, 102
     neuropathic joints, 98
     onychia, 151
     osteitis, 105
     osteomalacia, 113
     osteomyelitis, 105
     tubercular bone, 109
     syphilitic bone, 111
     Paget’s disease, 113
     painful heel, 184
     periostitis, 103
     perforating ulcer, 77
     pes planus, 181
     pes valgus, 192
     pes varus, 193
     phlebitis, 195
     phlegmon, 195
     primary syphilis, 131
     pus, 33
     pyemia, 50
     Raynaud’s disease, 119
     rigid flat foot, 183
     rupture of tendo Achillis, 168
     sapremia, 149
     sebaceous cyst, 154
     secondary syphilis, 132
     septic phlebitis, 127
     septicemia, 48
     sinus, 65
     sprains, 176
     synovitis, 86
     syphilis, 130
     syphilitic ulcers, 74
     talipes (various forms), 190
     tetanus, 135
     thrombosis, 119
     tubercular arthritis, 94
     ulcers
       actinomycotic, 136
       callous, 68
       epitheliomatous, 79
       diabetic, 75
       perforating, 75
       syphilitic, 72
       tubercular, 74
       varicose, 68
     verruca
       various forms, 139
     wounds, 44
       aseptic, 39
       contused, 40
       incised, 41
       infected, 39
       gunshot, 39
       lacerated, 44
       poisoned, 44
       septic, 44

   Trench foot, 137
     causes, 137
     diagnosis, 137
     symptoms, 137
     treatment, 138

   Trendelenburg method
     for enlarged veins, 126

   Treponema pallidum, 15, 130

   Trichloracetic acid
     uses, 210

   True subastragaloid dislocations, 174
     diagnosis, 174
     symptoms, 174
     treatment, 173

   Tuberculosis, 133
     cause, 133
     diagnosis, 133
     symptoms, 134
     treatment, 134

   Tubercular abscess, 109
     symptoms, 109
     treatment, 110

   Tubercular arthritis, 92
     diagnosis, 93
     symptoms, 92
     treatment, 94

   Tuberculosis of bone, 109
     causes, 109
     diagnosis, 109
     symptoms, 109
     treatment, 110

   Tubercular ulcer, 74
     diagnosis, 74
     symptoms, 74
     treatment, 74

   Tumors, 152

   Tumors of bone, 114
     fibromata, 114
     carcinoma, 115
     chondromata, 114
     diagnosis, 115
     myeloma, 116
     osteoma, 115
     sarcoma, 115
     symptoms, 116
     treatment, 117

   Thymol iodide, 210
     other name, 24
     uses, 210

   Turpentine, 199

   U

   Ulcers
     actinomycotic, 136
     blastomycotic, 79
     causes, 67
     callous, 67
     definition, 67
     differential diagnosis, 70
     epitheliomatous, 79
     diabetic, 75
     perforating, 75
     symptoms, 72
     syphilitic, 72
     treatment, 73
     tubercular, 74
     varicose, 68

   Unna’s paste, 219
     consistency, 219
     how applied, 220
     indications for use, 219
     method of preparation, 219

   Unrolled bandage, 216
     disadvantages, 216

   V

   Varicose ulcer, 68
     cause, 69
     differential diagnosis, 70
     symptoms, 68
     treatment, 71

   Varicose veins, 125
     bandages used, 126
     operative measures, 126
     palliative means, 126
     resection of internal saphenous, 126
     support, 126

   Varix, 68, 126

   Verruca, 139
     etiology, 139
     diagnosis, 139
     symptoms, 139
     treatment, 139, 140
     varieties, 139

   Vaseline
     uses, 212

   Violet ray, 198

   W

   Wart, verruca, papilloma, 139
     causes, 139
     symptoms, 139
     treatment, 140

   Wash
     black, 209
     lead and opium, 208
     red, 210
     white, 209
     consistency, 209
     uses, 209

   Webbed toes, 99
     causes, 99
     symptoms, 99
     treatment, 99

   Wet dressings, 207
     indications, 207
     varieties, 208

   Wounds
     aseptic, 39
     classification, 39
     contused, 40
     gunshot, 39
     incised, 39, 41
     lacerated, 40
     poisoned, 39
     punctured, 40
     prognosis, 40
     symptoms, 44
     treatment, 44

   X

   X ray
     uses, 202, 203, 205

   Z

   Zinc chloride, 24

   Zinc oxide adhesive plaster
     uses, 215

   Zinc sulphate, 210
     in solution, 210
     stick, 211
     uses, 211


canny game, Adele a rather brilliant one, Julia a wild and disastrous
hand, always, and Eugene so badly that only Julia would take him on as
a partner.  Mrs. Baldwin never knew about these evenings.

It was on one of these occasions that Aunt Sophy, coming unexpectedly
into the living room from the kitchen, where she and Adele were
foraging for refreshments after the game, beheld Julia Gold and Eugene,
arms clasped about each other, cheek to cheek. They started up as she
came in and faced her, the woman defiantly, the boy bravely.  Julia
Gold was thirty (with reservations) at that time, and the boy not quite
twenty-one.

"How long?" said Aunt Sophy, quietly.  She had a mayonnaise spoon and a
leaf of lettuce in her hand then, and still she did not look comic.

"I'm crazy about her," said Eugene.  "We're crazy about each other.
We're going to be married."

Aunt Sophy listened for the reassuring sound of Adele's spoons and
plates in the kitchen.  She came forward.  "Now, listen----" she began.

"I love him," said Julia Gold, dramatically.  "I love him!"

Except that it was very white and, somehow, old-looking, Aunt Sophy's
face was as benign as always.  "Now, look here, Julia, my girl.  That
isn't love, and you know it.  I'm an old maid, but I know what love is
when I see it.  I'm ashamed of you, Julia. Sensible woman like you,
hugging and kissing a boy like that, and old enough to be his mother."

"Now, look here, Aunt Sophy!  If you're going to talk that way---- Why,
she's wonderful.  She's taught me what it means to really----"

"Oh, my land!" Aunt Sophy sat down, looking suddenly very ill.

And then, from the kitchen, Adele's clear young voice:  "Heh! What's
the idea!  I'm not going to do all the work.  Where's everybody?"

Aunt Sophy started up again.  She came up to them and put a hand--a
capable, firm, steadying hand--on the arm of each.  The woman drew
back, but the boy did not.

"Will you promise me not to do anything for a week?  Just a week!  Will
you promise me?  Will you?"

"Are you going to tell Father?"

"Not for a week, if you'll promise not to see each other in that week.
No, I don't want to send you away, Julia, I don't want to.... You're
not a bad girl.  It's just--he's never had--at home they never gave him
a chance.  Just a week, Julia.  Just a week, Eugene.  We can talk
things over then."

Adele's footsteps coming from the kitchen.

"Quick!"

"I promise," said Eugene.  Julia said nothing.

"Well, really," said Adele, from the doorway, "you're a nervy lot,
sitting around while I slave in the kitchen.  Gene, see if you can open
the olives with this fool can opener.  I tried."

There is no knowing what she expected to do in that week, Aunt Sophy;
what miracle she meant to perform.  She had no plan in her mind.  Just
hope.  She looked strangely shrunken and old, suddenly.  But when,
three days later, the news came that America was to go into the war she
had her answer.

Flora was beside herself.  "Eugene won't have to go.  He isn't old
enough, thank God!  And by the time he is it will be over. Surely."
She was almost hysterical.

Eugene was in the room.  Aunt Sophy looked at him and he looked at Aunt
Sophy.  In her eyes was a question.  In his was the answer.  They said
nothing.  The next day Eugene enlisted.  In three days he was gone.
Flora took to her bed.  Next day Adele, a faint, unwonted color marking
her cheeks, walked into her mother's bedroom and stood at the side of
the recumbent figure. Her father, his hands clasped behind him, was
pacing up and down, now and then kicking a cushion that had fallen to
the floor.  He was chewing a dead cigar, one side of his face twisted
curiously over the cylinder in his mouth so that he had a sinister and
crafty look.

"Charnsworth, won't you please stop ramping up and down like that!  My
nerves are killing me.  I can't help it if the war has done something
or other to your business.  I'm sure no wife could have been more
economical than I have.  Nothing matters but Eugene, anyway.  How could
he do such a thing!  I've given my whole life to my children----"

H. Charnsworth kicked the cushion again so that it struck the wall at
the opposite side of the room.  Flora drew her breath in between her
teeth as though a knife had entered her heart.

Adele still stood at the side of the bed, looking at her mother. Her
hands were clasped behind her, too.  In that moment, as she stood
there, she resembled her mother and her father so startlingly and
simultaneously that the two, had they been less absorbed in their own
affairs, must have marked it.

The girl's head came up stiffly.  "Listen.  I'm going to marry Daniel
Oakley."

Daniel Oakley was fifty, and a friend of her father's.  For years he
had been coming to the house and for years she had ridiculed him.  She
and Eugene had called him Sturdy Oak because he was always talking
about his strength and endurance, his walks, his rugged health;
pounding his chest meanwhile and planting his feet far apart.  He and
Baldwin had had business relations as well as friendly ones.

At this announcement Flora screamed and sat up in bed.  H. Charnsworth
stopped short in his pacing and regarded his daughter with a queer
look; a concentrated look, as though what she had said had set in
motion a whole mass of mental machinery within his brain.

"When did he ask you?"

"He's asked me a dozen times.  But it's different now.  All the men
will be going to war.  There won't be any left.  Look at England and
France.  I'm not going to be left."  She turned squarely toward her
father, her young face set and hard.  "You know what I mean.  You know
what I mean."

Flora, sitting up in bed, was sobbing.  "I think you might have told
your mother, Adele.  What are children coming to!  You stand there and
say, 'I'm going to marry Daniel Oakley.'  Oh, I am so faint ... all of
a sudden ...  Get the spirits of ammonia."

Adele turned and walked out of the room.  She was married six weeks
later.  They had a regular prewar wedding--veil, flowers, dinner, and
all.  Aunt Sophy arranged the folds of her gown and draped her veil.
The girl stood looking at herself in the mirror, a curious half smile
twisting her lips.  She seemed slighter and darker than ever.

"In all this white, and my veil, I look just like a fly in a quart of
milk," she said, with a laugh.  Then, suddenly, she turned to her aunt,
who stood behind her, and clung to her, holding her tight, tight.  "I
can't!" she gasped.  "I can't! I can't!"

Aunt Sophy held her off and looked at her, her eyes searching the girl.

"What do you mean, Della?  Are you just nervous or do you mean you
don't want to marry him?  Do you mean that?  Then what are you marrying
for?  Tell me!  Tell your Aunt Sophy."

But Adele was straightening herself and pulling out the crushed folds
of her veil.  "To pay the mortgage on the old homestead, of course.
Just like the girl in the play."  She laughed a little.  But Aunt Sophy
did not.

"Now look here, Della.  If you're----"

But there was a knock at the door.  Adele caught up her flowers. "It's
all right," she said.  Aunt Sophy stood with her back against the door.
"If it's money," she said.  "It is!  It is, isn't it!  I've got money
saved.  It was for you children.  I've always been afraid.  I knew he
was sailing pretty close, with his speculations and all, since the war.
He can have it all.  It isn't too late yet.  Adele!  Della, my baby."

"Don't, Aunt Sophy.  It wouldn't be enough, anyway.  Daniel has been
wonderful, really.  Dad's been stealing money for years. Dan's.  Don't
look like that.  I'd have hated being poor, anyway. Never could have
got used to it.  It is ridiculous, though, isn't it?  Like something in
the movies.  I don't mind.  I'm lucky, really, when you come to think
of it.  A plain little black thing like me."

"But your mother----"

"Mother doesn't know a thing."

Flora wept mistily all through the ceremony, but Adele was composed
enough for two.

When, scarcely a month later, Baldwin came to Sophy Decker, his face
drawn and queer, Sophy knew.

"How much?" she said.

"Thirty thousand will cover it.  If you've got more than that----"

"I thought Oakley----Adele said----"

"He did, but he won't any more, and this thing's got to be met. It's
this damned war that's done it.  I'd have been all right. People got
scared.  They wanted their money.  They wanted it in cash."

"Speculating with it, were you?"

"Oh, well, a woman doesn't understand these business deals."

"No, naturally," said Aunt Sophy, "a butterfly like me."

"Sophy, for God's sake don't joke now.  I tell you this will cover it,
and everything will be all right.  If I had anybody else to go to for
the money I wouldn't ask you.  But you'll get it back.  You know that."

Aunt Sophy got up, heavily, and went over to her desk.  "It was for the
children, anyway.  They won't need it now."

He looked up at that.  Something in her voice.  "Who won't?  Why won't
they?"

"I don't know what made me say that.  I had a dream."

"Eugene?"

"Yes."

"Oh, well, we're all nervous.  Flora has dreams every night and
presentiments every fifteen minutes.  Now, look here, Sophy. About this
money. You'll never know how grateful I am.  Flora doesn't understand
these things, but I can talk to you.  It's like this----"

"I might as well be honest about it," Sophy interrupted.  "I'm doing
it, not for you, but for Flora, and Della--and Eugene. Flora has lived
such a sheltered life.  I sometimes wonder if she ever really knew any
of you.  Her husband, or her children.  I sometimes have the feeling
that Della and Eugene are my children--were my children."

When he came home that night Baldwin told his wife that old Soph was
getting queer.  "She talks about the children being hers," he said.

"Oh, well, she's awfully fond of them," Flora explained.  "And she's
lived her little, narrow life, with nothing to bother her but her hats
and her house.  She doesn't know what it means to suffer as a mother
suffers--poor Sophy."

"Um," Baldwin grunted.

When the official notification of Eugene's death came from the War
Department, Aunt Sophy was so calm it might have appeared that Flora
had been right.  She took to her bed now in earnest, did Flora.  Sophy
neglected everything to give comfort to the stricken two.

"How can you sit there like that!"  Flora would rail.  "How can you sit
there like that!  Even if you weren't his mother, surely you must feel
something."

"It's the way he died that comforts me," said Aunt Sophy.

"What difference does that make!"

AMERICAN RED CROSS
  (Croix Rouge Americaine)

MY DEAR MRS. BALDWIN:

  I am sure you must have been officially notified by the U.S.
War Dept. of the death of your son, Lieut. Eugene H. Baldwin. But I
want to write you what I can of his last hours.  I was with him much of
that time as his nurse.  I'm sure it must mean much to a mother to hear
from a woman who was privileged to be with her boy at the last.

  Your son was brought to our hospital one night badly gassed
from the fighting in the Argonne Forest.  Ordinarily we do not receive
gassed patients, as they are sent to a special hospital near here.  But
two nights before, the Germans wrecked that hospital, so many gassed
patients have come to us.

  Your son was put in the officers' ward, where the doctors who
examined him told me there was absolutely no hope for him, as he had
inhaled so much gas that it was only a matter of a few hours. I could
scarcely believe that a man so big and strong as he was could not pull
through.

  The first bad attack he had, losing his breath and nearly
choking, rather frightened him, although the doctor and I were both
with him.  He held my hand tightly in his, begging me not to leave him,
and repeating, over and over, that it was good to have a woman near.
He was propped high in bed and put his head on my shoulder while I
fanned him until he breathed more easily.  I stayed with him all that
night, though I was not on duty.  You see, his eyes also were badly
burned.  But before he died he was able to see very well.  I stayed
with him every minute of that night and have never seen a finer
character than he showed during all that fight for life.

  He had several bad attacks that night and came through each one
simply because of his great will power and fighting spirit. After each
attack he would grip my hand and say, "Well, we made it that time,
didn't we, nurse?"  Toward morning he asked me if he was going to die.
I could not tell him the truth.  He needed all his strength.  I told
him he had one chance in a thousand. He seemed to become very strong
then, and sitting bolt upright in bed, he said:  "Then I'll fight for
it!"  We kept him alive for three days, and actually thought we had won
when on the third day...

  But even in your sorrow you must be very proud to have been the
mother of such a son....

  I am a Wisconsin girl--Madison.  When this is over and I come
home, will you let me see you so that I may tell you more than I can
possibly write?

                                                MARIAN KING

It was in March, six months later, that Marian King came.  They had
hoped for it, but never expected it.  And she came.  Four people were
waiting in the living room of the big Baldwin house overlooking the
river.  Flora and her husband, Adele and Aunt Sophy.  They sat,
waiting.  Now and then Adele would rise, nervously, and go to the
window that faced the street.  Flora was weeping with audible sniffs.
Baldwin sat in his chair, frowning a little, a dead cigar in one corner
of his mouth.  Only Aunt Sophy sat quietly, waiting.

There was little conversation.  None in the last five minutes. Flora
broke the silence, dabbing at her face with her handkerchief as she
spoke.

"Sophy, how can you sit there like that?  Not that I don't envy you.  I
do.  I remember I used to feel sorry for you.  I used to say 'Poor
Sophy.'  But you unmarried ones are the happiest, after all.  It's the
married woman who drinks the cup to the last, bitter drop.  There you
sit, Sophy, fifty years old, and life hasn't even touched you.  You
don't know how cruel life can be to a mother."

Suddenly, "There!" said Adele.  The other three in the room stood up
and faced the door.  The sound of a motor stopping outside.  Daniel
Oakley's hearty voice:  "Well, it only took us five minutes from the
station.  Pretty good."

Footsteps down the hall.  Marian King stood in the doorway.  They faced
her, the four--Baldwin and Adele and Flora and Sophy. Marian King stood
a moment, uncertainly, her eyes upon them.  She looked at the two older
women with swift, appraising glances. Then she came into the room,
quickly, and put her two hands on Aunt Soph's shoulders and looked into
her eyes straight and sure.

"You must be a very proud woman," she said.  "You ought to be a very
proud woman."