132 COMMUNICATIONS. 
the fyftem; but no intromiffion of bile had yet 
happened: the hardnefs about the hypogaftric regi- 
on, though lefs, continued in a confiderable de- 
gree, and you ordered pills of mercury rubbed 
down, and ruft of iron, to be taken twice a day, 
— a decoction of dandelion and fal fode. 
A cataplafm of on was applied every eed 
over the ftomach and right fide; and, with little 
deviation from this plan, fhe continued to the end 
» improving in her general health, but 
| affeétion yet remiainiig: Te was then 
deterninea” to try the effe&s of electricity; 
gentle fhocks were paffed throught the 2 Baty daily, 
and as nearly as could be through the liver, in va- 
rious directions, 
On the fifth day there was reafon to think that. 
fome gall had been fecreted and poured out, and 
-this became every day more evident; but it flowed © 
only in fmall pooees and a into” the 
though ebiaitoene yet fo ate as to pro- 
- -mife us the fatii sfa@ion of feeing her betes ref 
rune 29. The bile i is Row fecretdd in pretty es a 
atity, her appetite i is perfeétly good, her ftre r ee 
to aut Sed ees of exercife, and her 
health 2 
