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food, and by avoiding all fatty articles, or such as have 

 a tendency to create flatulence ; and by the administra- 

 tion of Alumin, Lycopa., Lept., Nux Vom., Podoph., or 

 Sulphur, the sitz bath, etc. 



As regards the second indication for treatment, the 

 renal organs contribute perhaps more than any other 

 to purify the blood from extraneous matter ; and next 

 to them come the glands of the skin surface. The 

 secretion of urine which in the later stages of the 

 more intense forms of Jaundice is not unfrequently 

 suppressed to a very serious and alarming extent, in 

 consequence of the deposit of colouring matter in the 

 minute structures of the kidneys must be combatted 

 from time to time by means of Aeon., Canth., Nux Vom., 

 Terebinth, and particularly lemon juice, which I have 

 found eminently efficacious as a diuretic in three cases 

 of chronic Jaundice, with very scanty secretion of urine ; 

 to these may be added diluent drinks, such as barley- 

 water, linseed tea, seltzer and other mineral waters of a 

 similar kind, tepid sitz, baths and cold compresses over 

 the lumbar region. The functions of the skin which 

 is a great helper to the excretion of all kinds of effete 

 matter should be stimulated by means of tepid baths 

 to which some ounces of soda may be added ; or better 

 still, a series of Turkish baths, which should be taken 

 every second 01 third day, and continued for a con- 

 siderable length of time : these are particularly suitable 

 for the removal of the deposit of bile-pigment in the 

 Tinal layer of the skin, particularly when it remains 

 removal of the obstruction in the bile-ducts. 



It is, however, when we come to consider those forms 

 of Jaundice which arise as a sequence to organic disease 



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