ft DISEASES Class I. f. 3. 6. 



M. M. Diluent liquids, and warm bathing, are the natural 

 cure of this fymptom ; but it generally attends thofe dropfies, 

 which are feldom curable ; as they are owing to a paralyfis both 

 of the cutaneous and cellular lymphatics. 



8. Calculus felleus. Gall-ftone. From the too hafty abforp- 

 tion of the thinner parts of the bile, the remainder is left too 

 vifcid, and cryftallizes into lumps; which, if too large to pafs, 

 obftrucl: the ductus choledochus, producing pain at the pit of 

 the ltomach, and jaundice. When the indurated bile is not 

 harder than a boiled pea, it may pafs through the bile-duct with 

 difficulty by changing its form ; and thus gives thofe pains, 

 which have been called fpafms of the ftomach ; and yet thefe 

 vifcid lumps of biie may afterwards dilTolve, and not be viiible 

 among the feces. 



In two inftances I have feen from thirty to fifty gall-ftones 

 voided after taking an oil vomit as below. They were about 

 the fize of peas, and diflinguifhable when dry by their being in- 

 flammable like bad wax, when put into the flame of a candle. 

 For other caufes of jaundice, fee Oafs I. 2. 4. 19. 



M. M. Diluents, daily warm bathing. Ether mixed with 

 yolk of egg and water. Unboiled acrid vegetables, as lettr.ee, 

 cabbage, muftard, and crefles. When in violent pain, four 

 ounces of oi4 of olives, or of almonds, mould be f wallowed •, and 

 as much more in a quarter of an hour, whether it flays or not. 

 The patient mould lie on the circumference of a large barrel, 

 fitft on one fide, and then on the other. Electric fhocks through 

 the gall- duct. Factitious Seltzer water made by difTolving one 

 dram offal feda if! a pint of water ; to half a pint of which made 

 hike-warm add ten drops of marine acid * to be drunk as foori 

 as mixed, twice a day for fome months. Opium muft be ufed 

 to quiet the pain, if the oil does not fucceed, as two grains, and 

 another grain in half an hour if neceftary. See Clafs IV. 2. 2.4. 



9. Calculus rents. Stone of the kidney. The pain in the loins 

 and along the courfe of the ureter from a Hone is attended with 

 •retraction of the teiticle in men, and numbnefs on the infide of 

 the thigh in women. It is diftinguiihed from the lumbago or 

 fciatica, as thefe latter are feldom attended with vomiting, and 

 have pain on the outfide of the thigh, fometimes quite down to 



ancle or heel. See Herpes and Nephritis. 

 Where the abforption of the thinner parts of the fecretion 

 t kes place too haftily in the kidneys, the hardened mucus, and 

 comequent calculous concretions, fometimes totally flop up the 

 tubuli uriniferi, and no urine is fecreted. Of this many die, 

 who have drunk much vinous fpirit, and fome of them recover 

 by voiding a quantity of white mucu6, like chalk and water ; and 



ethers 



