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scrofulous, syphilitic, and tuberculous affections, &c., are 

 all indications which guide us with tolerable certainty. 



TREATMENT. Taking into consideration the various 

 causes which give rise to waxy degeneration of the 

 liver and kidneys, our general treatment and selec- 

 tion of medicines must vary accordingly. 



1. Long-standing purulent discharges, such as we find 

 connected with diseased bones or joints, should be 

 treated with the Merc.-Prot.-Iod., ATS., Assaf., Phos. c. 

 Silecia, Hepar. s., and Sulph. 



2. If able to trace the disease to constitutional sy- 

 philis, which appears to act as a predisposing cause, 

 independently of its capability of inducing disease of 

 the bones and protracted discharges, a cure is best 

 obtained by the various preparations of iodine, viz., 

 the Iodide of Potassium, Iodine, Merc.-Prot.-Iod., and the 

 Syrupus Ferri Iodide, and the waters of Aix-la-Chapelle, 

 Woodhall in Lincolnshire, or Purton in Wiltshire. 



3. If the waxy liver is connected with well marked 

 symptoms of tubercles of the lungs and other organs of 

 the body, Cede. c. Chin., Potass, lod., Lycop., Phosphorous, 

 and St annum should be selected. 



4. There are other chronic diseases that tend seriously 

 to impair the general nutrition of the body, and which 

 may be set down as predisposing causes of waxy de- 

 generation of the liver, viz., the sequelae of intermittent 

 and remittent fever, dysentery and cancer ; for such a 

 condition China, Quina., Ars., Carbo.-veg., and Sulph. 

 should be selected, also the Carbonate, Sulphate, and 

 Phosphate of Soda, and the Muriate of Ammonia. The 

 late Dr. Budd strongly recommended the latter medicine 

 in doses of from five to ten grains three times a day. 



