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- Asthma
- All About Asthma
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1876)
- Blood Conditions
- On Purity of Blood
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1880)
- "Why Am I So Pale?" by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1890)
- Poverty of Blood: Its Cause and Cure, by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1888)
- Cancer
- A Reassuring Word About Cancer
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1895)
- Chilblains
- Chilblains, by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1881)
- "In simple language a chilblain, whether on the hands or feet, is nothing save a mitigated form of frostbite."
- Concerning Chaps and Chilblains
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1894)
- Cholera
- Precautions Against Cholera
(Illustrated London Almanack, 1850)
- An Undesired Guest
(Century Magazine, 1885A)
- Consumption (Tuberculosis)
- My Advice to the Consumptive
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877)
- My Attendance at the Brompton Hospital
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)
- A patient's experiences at a famous hospital for consumptives.
- The Beginnings of Lung Mischief
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1883)
- How a Consumptive Found Health
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1883)
- The health benefits of the climate of Colorado.
- The Worst of All Plagues, by "The New Doctor"
(Girl's Own Paper, 1900)
- At the time of this article, tuberculosis "kills one-seventh of the human race before the 40th year of life." It infects at least three times that many, however, as shown by post-mortems of examinations of person who died of other causes.
- Debility
- Debility: Its Causes and Cure
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)
- Diphtheria
- Diphtherial Disease
(Godey's, 1863)
- The New Treatment of Diphtheria, by Hermann M. Biggs
(Century Magazine, 1895A)
- Ear Infections
- Be Warned in Time! by "The New Doctor"
(Girl's Own Paper, 1898)
- The warning is about the serious consequences that can arise from neglecting a seemingly trifling "ear affection" -- a problem that will surely resonate with parents today!
- Goiter
- Derbyshire Neck: Its Causes and Cures
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
- Gout
- A Friendly Gossip on Gout
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)
- Headaches & Migraines
- Headaches and How to Cure Them
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877)
- Brain Weariness and Brain Tonics
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1885)
- How My Head Does Ache!
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1888)
- [Megrims/Migraines] A Most Unwelcome Guest
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1890)
- A Word on Megrims [Migraines]
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1893)
- Headaches, by Marcia Duncan, MD
(Demorest, 1896)
- Headaches: Causes and Cures (Ladies Home Journal, 1896)
- Several short articles by various doctors on the topic.
- Heart
- A Healthy Heart
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)
- Doctor, Is My Heart All Right?
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
- Liver
- "It Is Merely My Liver"
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)
- A Touch of Liver
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1893)
- Malaria
- Fighting Malaria, by Herbert Hamilton
(Good Words, 1902)
- Mumps
- Mumps, by John Stainback Wilson, MD
(Godey's, 1863)
- Myalgia
- All About Myalgia, by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1894)
- Neuralgia
- Plain Advice to the Neuralgic
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)
- Rheumatism
- A Few Words About Rheumatism
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)
- Simple Remedies for Rheumatism
(Girl's Own Paper, 1881)
- The Cure of Rheumatism
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)
- Rheumatism in the Young, by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1885)
- Thoughts Suggested at a Yorkshire Spa
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- The connection between rheumatism and the digestion.
- "A Fellow-Feeling Makes Us Wondrous Kind", by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1891)
- Primarily on lumbago and rheumatic fever.
- About Rheumatism, and Its Kindred Ailments, by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1892)
- Chiefly About Rheumatism, by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1898)
- The Rheumatism Microbe, by "The New Doctor"
(Girl's Own Paper, 1901)
- On the discovery of the microbe causing rheumatic fever.
- Seasickness
- A Cure for Seasickness
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1875)
- A Study of Seasickness, by George T. Stevens
(Century Magazine, 1883B)
- The function of vision in creating (and resolving) sea-sickness.
- Spine
- A Crooked Spine
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1890)
- Throat & Voice
- The Care of the Voice, by "Medicus"*
(Girl's Own Paper, 1880)
- The Throat, Its Trials and Troubles
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1880)
- The Voice: How to Keep it in Health
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- Thrush
- Thrush, by John Stainback Wilson, MD
(Godey's, 1863)
- Typhoid
- Useful Hints: Typhoid Fever
(Girl's Own Paper, 1892)
- *"Medicus" was the pen-name of Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N., health columnist for The Girl's Own Paper. Read the complete collection of Medicus Columns from 1881-1902 in chronological order.
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