Diseases and Treatment - B

  • 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).