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MEDICAL INTRO
BOOKS ON OLD MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND REMEDIES

THE PRACTICAL
HOME PHYSICIAN AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE
The biggy of the late 1800's. Clearly shows the massive inroads in medical science and the treatment of disease.

ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY In fact alcohol was known to be a poison, and considered quite dangerous. Something modern medicine now agrees with. This was known circa 1907. A very impressive scientific book on the subject.

DISEASES OF THE SKIN is a massive book on skin diseases from 1914. Don't be feint hearted though, it's loaded with photos that I found disturbing.

Part of  SAVORY'S COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE:

 19th CENTURY HEALTH MEDICINES AND DRUGS

 

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Mother's marks or Naevi.

Mother's marks or naevi are congenital discolorations of the skin. They are of two varieties: first, there is the simple increase in the coloring matter of the skin, constituting what is known as a mole. These moles are often supplied with hairs of unusual size and length, whereby the disfigurement of the skin is much enhanced. The other variety is the reddish discoloration of the skin, which is variously known as wine mark and claret stain. This reddish color is due to an unnatural size of the blood vessels in the skin at the given point. Sometimes this enlargement of the vessels is quite limited, making merely a reddish point ; at other times the vessels over a considerable part of the skin are enlarged and dilated, so that the entire side of the face or neck exhibits an intense red color.

These birth marks are associated in the popular mind with numerous curious fables. Every deformity of a new-born child, whether it consists merely in a discoloration of the skin or in more serious departure from the natural condition, is explained by supposing that the mother during her pregnancy had witnessed some scene or beheld some object, the sight of which had impressed itself upon her memory and upon the body of her unborn child. These wine marks, so called, are attributed to such causes ; in one instance the mother asserts that she had, a fe\£ months previous to the birth of the child, seen an individual with blood on his face, exactly in the location in which the discoloration subsequently appeared on the face of her child.

It is needless to say that there is no foundation whatsoever for such explanation of these deformities. These fables are merely evidences of the curious fancies which have always been invented to explain the unknown.

In consequence of the superstitious ideas associated with the origin of these mother's marks, there has prevailed a belief that these deformities should not be corrected lest some harm should happen to the individual. This, too, is a mistaken idea, as has been often demonstrated by the removal of such marks. There is no objection on this score to removing mother's marks ; but there is often considerable difficulty in the execution of this plan. Various procedures have been devised and carried out by surgeons for the relief of this condition, but until recently, all of them have required some interference by means of the knife or of caustic. It is, however, now possible to remove many of these mother's marks without injury to the patient, but such measures can be successfully carried out only with the apparatus and skill of the surgeon.

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