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‘square on the pit of the ‘stotniechs for two or three days, changing it 
every day ; at the end of which time give a strong purge, which will — 
bring away the worms if they are there. This a has suc- 
¢eeded when many others have failed. | 
- ng the vermifuges may be reckoned ; black hhelichore; or bear's 
decoction, or in powder, fifteen grains of the dried leaves, © 
dose to a child, from four to seven years old, and repeated two 
or three times: male fern root, red cedar balls, tansy seed, worm seed — 
oil, spirits of turpentine. Indian hemp, wormwood, pink root, old 
a © pipes, pulverized, alum, spotted alder, garlics and nega 
iron, steel filings, &c.. 
But worms, though expelled, will soon breed again, if olan sto- 
mach remains weak and relaxed; to prevent which we would re- : 
commend the use of alkalies, as Jime-<waters together with tonic bit- 
mae baii se terhoningy medicines, i in wine, as golden seal, centaury, — 
camomile flowers, wormwood, tansy, iron and myrrb, the tonic — 
ctu re, gentian, columbo, snake root, &c. 
Dir — turpentine is often successful i in destroying the ek 
JAUNDICE. 
Tue jaundice is a copious effusion of the bilious fluid througlsede 
the whole habit of the body. It is first observable in the white of 
the eye, which appears yellow. Afterwards, the whole skin puss on 
a yellow appearance. The urine too is of a saffron hue. 
_ There is likewise.a species of this disease called the black 
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4+ Cxvene.—The immediate eause of jaundice is an obstruetion of 
bs hie. from biliary calculi, or stones, in the gall-bladder, or its — 
ducts ; rom thickened bile ; spasmodic constrictions of the ducts — 
themselves ; pressure from adjacent tumors; schirrosity of the liver, — 
&e. The remote or occasional causes are, the bites of poisonous : 
animals ; the bilious or hysteric colic; violent passions ; sometimes 
it proceeds from obstinate agues, particularly when the disease 
has been kept under without being cured, by the continual use of — 
quinine, bark, &c. Pregnant women are very subjectto it. It often 
proceeds from a too profuse secretion of bile. 
‘Symp’ OsEeAL first, weariness, on and inactivity ; bis skio 
is dry, and of a yellow color, as also the eyes; a pricking or "itching 
pain over the whole body. The stools are of a whitish or-clay — 
color, and the urine, yellow. The breathing is difficult, and the 
patient complains of an unusual load or oppression of the breast: 
There is a heat in the nostrils, a bitter taste in the mouth pean’ 
of food, sickness of. the stomach, vomiting, flatulency, 
symptoms of indigestion 5 ‘swelling at the pit of the stoma 
dical colics, rambling of the bowels, &c. 
When the disease proceeds from an obstruction of the bile, 
fee peetber symptoms are, white or ash-coloured stools, obstinate 
