% DISEASES' Class I. 2. 3. $< 



M. M. Metallic injections, partial cold bath, internal method 

 as in the fluor albus above defcribed. Balfam of copaiva. Tinc- 

 ture of cantharides. Introduce a few inches into the urethra a 

 bougie fmeared with balfam of copaiva. See Home on urethra, 

 b. 105. 



9. Hepai'is tumor. The liver becomes enlarged from defect 

 of the abforption of mucus from its cells, as in anafarca, efpeci- 

 ally in feeble children ; at the fame time lefs bile is fecretcd 

 from the torpid circulation in the vena porta?. And as the ab~ 

 forbents, which refume the thinner parts of the bile from the 

 gall-bladder and hepatic ducts, are alfo torpid or quiefcent, the 

 bile is more dilute, as well as in lefs quantity. From the ob- 

 struction of ihe paifage of the blood through the comprefied ve- 

 iid porta theie patients have tumid bellies, and pale bloated coun- 

 tenances ; their palenefs is probably owing to the deficiency of 

 the quantity of red globules in the blood in confequence of the 

 inert ftate of the bile. 



Thefe fymptomsin children are generally attended with worms, 

 the dilute bile and the weak digeiiion not deftroying them. In 

 iheep I have feen fluke-worms in the gall-duels themfelves among 

 the dilute bile ; which gall-ducts they eat through, and then 

 produce ulcers, ar^i the hectic fever, called the rot. See Clafs 

 1. 1.4. 10. and Article IV. 2. 6. 



M. M. After a calomel purge, crude iron filings are fpecific 

 in this difeafe in children, and the worms are deilroyed by the 

 returning acrimony and quantity of the bile. Ablifteron the 

 region of the liver. Sorbentia, as worm-feed^ fantonicum. Co-? 

 lumbo. Bark. 



The nitrous acid has been ftrongly recommended by Mr. Scot 

 In tumours of the liver, which frequentlv occur in the eaft, where 

 this gentleman refides ; he gives two drachms of itrong nitrous 

 acid mixed with two pounds of water, to be drunk daily at in- 

 tervals. See Syphilis, Clafs II. 1. 5.2. 



10. Chforofis. When the defect of the due action of both the 

 abforbent and fecerning veflels of the liver affects women, and is 

 attended with obitruction of the catamenia, it is called chlorofis \ 

 and is cured by the exhibition of fteel, which reftores by its fpe- 

 cific ftimulus the abforbent oower of the liver ; and the men- 

 itruation, which was obstructed in confequence of debility, 

 recurs. 



Indigeftion, owing to torpor of the flomach, and a confequent 



too great acidity of its contents, attend this difeafe ; whence a 



defire of eating chalk, or marl. Sometimes a great quantity of 



pale urine is difcharged in a morning, which is owing to the in- 



action of the abforbents, which are diftributed on the neck of 



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