- Back-Ache (stiff back, crick in the back, sprains).
- Bakers' Itch (Bakers' salt-rheum, flour scabs).
- Baldness (alopecia).
- Barbadoes' Leg (elephantiasis).
- Barber's Itch. See instead Eczema of the Beard.
- Barrenness (sterility). See also: Diseases of Women.
- Bed Sores (gangrene, mortification).
- Bed-Wetting (eneuresis).
- Beri-Beri (impoverishment of the blood).
- Bile Deficiency (acholia). See also: Liver Diseases.
- Biliary Calculi. See also: Gall-Stones.
- Bites. See instead: Poison Wounds.
- Bladder Difficulties (atony, catarrh, inflammation, spasm, rupture). See also: Cancer, Calculi.
- Black Death. See instead: Plague.
- Bleeders' Disease (haemophilia, haemorrhagic diathesis).
- Bleeding of the Nose (epistaxis).
- Blood Poisoning (pyaemia, septicaemia).
- Blenorrhea. See instead: Diseases of the Generative Organs.
- Blepharitis. See instead: Disease of the Eye.
- Blood in the Urine (hematuria). See instead: Urinary diseases.
- Bloody Tumor. See instead Aneurism.
- Bloody Vomiting (hematemsis). See instead: Diseases of the Stomach.
- Blue Disease (cyanosis). See instead: Cyanosis.
- Boils (Job's comforters).
- Bone Diseases (abscess, inflammation, hypertrophy, caries, necrosis). See also: Cancer, Syphilis, White Swelling.
- Bowel Difficulties (acute inflammation, chronic inflammation, invagination or stoppage of the bowels).
- Brain Diseases (anaemia, atrophy, conjestion, hypertrophy, inflammation, softening).
- Bread Poisoning (ergotism). See also: Poisons and their Antidotes.
- Break-Bone Fever (dengue, acrodynia, dandy fever).
- Breast Pang (chest spasm). See instead: Angina Pectoris.
- Bricklayers' Itch. See also: Bakers' Itch.
- Bright's Disease (chronic albuminuria, acute inflammation of the kidneys).
- Bronchiectasis (dilation of the bronchi).
- Bronchitis (acute bronchial catarrh, capillary bronchitis).
- Bronchitis Chronic (winter cough, chronic bronchial catarrh, purulent bronchitis, dry bronchitis).
- Bronchocele. See instead: Goitre.
- Broncho-Pneumonia (catarrhal of lobular pneumonia). See instead: Pneumonia.
- Broncho-Stenosis (constriction of the bronchi).
- Brow Ague. See instead: Tic Douloureux.
- Bruises (black-and-blue condition, ecchymosis).
- Bullae (cheiro-pompholux).
- Bunions. See instead: Feet Diseases.
- Burns and Scalds (blisters, deep and destructive burns, sloughing).
Excerpts from J. H. Greer's "A Physician in the House: for family and individual consultation", published in 1897. Annotations provided throughout. This is not medical advice - if you're sick, see a doctor.
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