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prayed secretions of bile. In cases of this kind, he — 
recommends that patients sit with the legs in a tepid — 
nitro-muriatic acid bath, half an hour, or less, accord- 
ing to circumstances, every night, or every second 
night. He says, it produces its effects (after the first 
bath) in afew hours. ‘It purges—gives rise to the 
expulsion of dark-coloured feces or bright-coloured — 
bile; or bile of a brown, a green, or black colour, © 
like tar mixed with oil. The pulse, in time, becomes 
quicker than natural, and a degree of restlessness” 
takes place. These effects may be kept up for a 
number of days; they are often, however, much long- 
er in appearing. When the bile is deficient in quan- 
tity, the effects are only known by the feces re- 
. a4 by degrees to their natural colour, and by a_ 
Sage ‘improvement of the health.” It appears by 
lis statement, that delicate or even strong — 
and 
© the bath :,*Into-a 
to the age, strength, delicacy, 
the patient. : 
One drachm of the nitro-muriatic solution to a pint — 
able, with propriety, to give as yet a decided oj rs 
