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this, by potass., soda, aloes, and saline or bitter stomachic 

 aperients; failing this, by emetics, blisters, nitro- 

 muriatic acid, plasters, iodide of potassium, and inspis*- 

 sated ox -gall. 



Homceopathically. Simple torpor of the liver will 

 yield kindly enough to such remedies as the Podo- 

 phyllum Peltatum, Leptandra Virginica, and an occa- 

 sional or alternating dose of Nux Vomica, to correct 

 stomachic derangements. The two former may be taken 

 in four, five, or six drop doses of the tinctures, in the 

 matrix form, two or three times a day, the latter in the 

 first or second decimal dilution. 



In the more obstinate and aggravated form of torpor 

 of the liver, when there exists a sick bilious headache, 

 which is further characterized by a violent aching pain 

 in the whole head, with a feeling as if the brain were 

 sore, accompanied by a copious flow of water from the 

 mouth, nausea, vomiting of green and yellow bile, and a 

 muddy or sallow hue of the countenance, Merc. Sol. in 

 the first or second trituration will not fail to relieve the 

 sufferer ; and in the still more obstinate form, or when 

 it assumes a chronic character, indicated by a recur- 

 rence of the attacks from time to time ; a sallow icter- 

 oidal tint of the face, a coated tongue, a clammy mouth, 

 fulness and tension in the right hepatic region, disten- 

 sion and hardness of the abdomen ; constipation, which 

 at times alternates with green, dark brown, reddish, or 

 slate-coloured loose stools, at times tinged with blood 

 and slimy mucus ; I have found great benefit, and often 

 a radical cure, to follow a repetition of Merc. Sol., followed 

 by Leptandra, Taraxacum, and Nitro-muriatic Acid ; an 

 occasional Turkish bath, with a prolonged shampooing 



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