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also a certain amount of febrile excitement, coupled 

 with occasional signs of jaundice,, which, as a rule, are 

 but slight and of short duration. In addition to these 

 symptoms, we must not omit to recount the various 

 phenomena which accompany the divers complica- 

 tions sometimes accompanying Peri-hepatitis, such as 

 pleurisy of the right side ; simple ulcer, and cancer of 

 the stomach : with its train of cachectic symptoms ; and 

 when the portal vein, the hepatic veins, or the bile- 

 ducts become involved, the symptoms of disease of the 

 liver, or of chronic wasting, or of obstruction of bile, 

 become daily more and more manifest. 



TKEAT.M; - Allopath ii-ulbj. Peri- hepatitis is 



treated by the local abstraction of blood, either with 

 leeches or the cupping instrument, by warm cataplasms, 

 Calomel, and the neutral salts. 



HomceopaMcally, This form of inflammation will 

 yield kindly enough to Aconite and Bryonia in alterna- 

 tion, followed as circumstances may require by 

 Bclhuluinm- or Nux I'umn-n ; to warm cataplasms, com- 

 presses or fomentations, coupled with a carefully- 

 selected and ri;^id diet, perfect rest, together with a due 

 regard to the indications for treatment derived from the 

 primary < 



If from ulcer, Arg.-Nit. and M'<rc.-Corr. otMerc.-Sol. will 

 be found valual >le remedies, together with the blandestdiet. 



If from the cancer, Ars., Nux Vom., Baryta, Carb., 

 Phosphorus, or Vc rat. -Alb., with the same form of diet, 

 and nourishing enemas ; and, 



If from pleurisy, Aeon, and Bnj., followed, when 

 effusion has taken place, by Merc.-Sol, Iodide of Pol 

 and Sulphur. 



