Chapter III: Part II: I. Growths and Enlargements 123

Cancers--Fatty Tumors--Use of Patent Preparations
Dangerous--Symptoms and Cure of Rupture--The Best
Kind of Truss--Varicose Veins--Varicocele--External
and Internal Piles--Operations the Most Certain
Cure.

II. SKIN DISEASES AND RELATED DISORDERS 139

Itching, Chafing, and Chapping--Treatment of
Hives--Nettlerash--Pimples--Fever Blisters--Prickly
Heat--Cause of Ringworm--Freckles and Other Skin
Discolorations--Ivy Poison--Warts and Corns--
Boils--Carbuncles.

III. RHEUMATISM AND KINDRED DISEASES 169

Inflammatory Rheumatism--Symptoms and Treatment--
Muscular Rheumatism--Lumbago--Stiff Neck--Rheumatism
of the Chest--Chronic Rheumatism--Rheumatic Gout--
Scurvy in Adults and Infants--Gout, its Causes and
Remedies.

PART III

I. HEALTH AND PURITY 191

Duties of Parents--Sexual Abuse--Dangers to
Health--Physical Examination of Infants--Necessary
Knowledge of Sex Functions Natural--The Critical Age
of Puberty--Marriage Relations.

II. GENITO-URINARY DISEASES 199

Gonorrhea in Men and Women--Dangers of Infection--
Syphilis, its Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment--
Incontinence and Suppression of Urine--Bed-wetting--
Inflammation of the Bladder--Acute and Chronic
Bright's Disease.

PART IV

I. INSANITY 229

Mental Disorder Not Insanity--Illusions of the
Insane--Hallucinations and Delusions--Signs and
Causes of Insanity--Paranoia--How the Physician
Should Be Aided--The Best Preventive.

_Appendix._ PATENT MEDICINES 245

Advice Regarding the Use of Patent Medicines--Laws
Regulating the Sale of Drugs--Proprietary
Medicines--Good Remedies--Dangers of So-called
"Cures"--Headache Powders--The Great American Fraud.