94 TREATMENT. 



intervals, or until bilious motions appear. Should there 

 exist at the same time tenderness, over the region of the 

 liver, a well-adjusted compress should be applied, or a 

 powerful cold douche should be directed to the surface 

 of the hypochondria from a distance, and kept pla; 

 for some minutes ; here, also, Aro,<it> would be expi 

 to play an important part as a curative agent. The 

 provings and toxicological records show most conclu- 

 sively that that drug exercises a specific action upon 

 the functions and tissues of the liver. Aconite causes 

 Jaundice, which is one of tin- nomonic sigi: 



Hepatitis; it liko,\vise causes bilious vomiting, a ibnl 

 bilious coating upon the tongue, painful iei-lin 

 swelling in the pit of the ston .lent constriction, 



tightness, pressure, fulness, and weight in the hypochon- 

 driac re-ion ; tensive, painful swelling under the ribs ; 

 shocks and pressure in the region of the liver, with 

 oppression and arrest of breath in g; pricking in the liver 

 and bowels, and a coiistrietivc pain in >n of the 



gall-bludder, ; :he breathiii 



decimal dilution of this medicine should be selected, 

 and adm: . or in alternation 



with one of the fnivgoing medicines every one or 

 hours. 



This mode of treatment should be nntlaggingly perse- 

 vered in, coupled with clu- , the holding out 

 hopes of recovery, change of scene, careful attenti' 

 the condition of the stomach and bowels, and the j.ro- 

 duetion of calm, sound sleep, by means of Coffea, i 



., Aeon., Gi r GloiwiiK . Should the 



disease, however, refuse to yield to those remedies, and 

 pursue its onward course of destruction, by invading the 



