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cases the states of general and local vascular fulness or 

 action, must claim our particular attention, and in many 

 cases it will be found requisite to aid the former, whilst 

 we diminish the latter. 



Allopathically. It becomes a matter of considerable 

 difficulty to ascertain, what are the effects of medicines 

 upon the circulation and functions of the liver ; for much 

 of what has hitherto been said and written upon the 

 subject, has been characterized by dogmatism rather than 

 by truth by vague assertions unsupported by facts. 

 Some of the medicines which have been supposed to 

 excite the liver to action most probably operate by 

 removing slight obstructions from the mouth of the 

 common duct by reducing vascular turgescence in the 

 duodenum, and carrying off mucous collections ; among 

 these may be mentioned the preparations of mercury, 

 particularly calomel and blue pill, as the provings and 

 <>f I Id met of Edinburgh prove beyond 

 doubt that no affinity exists between mercury and the 

 liver. 



''ally. Divers remedies have beenrecommended 

 " for the treatment of Jaundice," from the far-off epoch 

 of Hippociatee to the present time. Foremost among 

 these have been antiphlogistics, general blood-letting, 

 ics, laxativ.^, purgatives, diaphoretics and sudorifics ; 

 anodyne and stimulating antispasmodics, etc. 



//</,//" -.jitt/hi'-itl/f/ " ml Hi I' 1 1 >'idcally. Jaundice in its 

 varicv and phases is fairly amenable to treat- 



ment. In the first form the "Icterus Catarrhalis " 

 a larger number of cases have in my hands yielded 

 quickly to a dose or two of Aconite, followed 

 by J \n1.uitJiijllv. in ; a compress over the region of 



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