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than is required to relax the spasm in strangulated 

 hernia ? We relieve this spasm by means of the 3rd, 

 6th, or even higher potencies ; then why not spasm of 

 the gall-ducts ? Irrespective of the homceopathicity of 

 Xux Vom. to biliary colic, it corrects dyspeptic symptoms, 

 it cleanses the foul tongue, disperses flatulence, subdues 

 nausea, dispels vomiting, and acts as a potent aperient. 

 There should be no hesitation about the dose, no 

 coquetting with the 30th or 100th dilution, but it 

 should be administered in one, two, or even three drops 

 of the tincture, and repeated at short intervals. Dr. 

 Drury has recommended Calcarea Carbonica in the 30th 

 dilution as a gall-stone expeller ; I have tested that 

 preparation in two cases, and signally failed to produce 

 any effect whatever; the Lycopodium Clavatum, however, 

 came to the rescue, and gave me very valuable assist- 

 ance. It was delightful to watch the soothing influence 

 which the club-moss or wolf's-claw exercised over the 

 niodic paroxysms which affected my patients. 

 Lycopodium has been used with marked success in 

 spasmodic stricture of the urethra ; in the strangury of 

 children during dentition, and in the spasmodic stricture 

 of grown-up people, depending upon the presence of 

 gravel or pus in the urinary passages. It is the potent 

 which this drug exercises over spasm of the urinary 

 passages that first induced me to test it in spasmodic 

 stricture of the cystic and common biliary ducts. When 

 the calculus or calculi have been kicked out of the 

 oommondnet into the intestines,they should be compelled 

 without delay to move on ; this is effectually accomplished 

 by a dose of castor oil. or one or two seidlitz powders, 

 followed by a break fast- cupful or two of warm tea. 



