EXERCISE. 213 



Acidum Nitricum, Acidum Hydrochloricum, both in- 

 ternally and externally, as baths and compresses. 



Professor Kutherford and M. Viqual, in the Journal 

 of Anatomy and Physiology, give the results of a 

 series of experiments made on the cholagogue action of 

 the Euonymus Atropurpureus, or Wahoo ; San- 

 guinarin, Iridin, Leptandrin ; Ipecacuanha, Colocynth, 

 and Jalap. The first four named drugs are rarely or 

 ever prescribed in this country amongst allopaths ; but 

 it may be observed that they all stimulate the liver ; 

 the first THREE powerfully; the last, however, only 

 feebly. The animals experimented upon were dogs. 

 Ipecacuanha powerfully stimulates the liver ; so does 

 Colocynth ; so does Jalap.* 



Much however, must be done by the patients them- 

 selves ; for it were futile to lay down a code of rules 

 unless faithfully carried out with unflinching and stoical 

 determination. 



The indolent and high liver should take active exer- 

 cise, either in boating, tennis, or a daily ride on a rough 

 trotting cob, and moderate his sumptuous repasts; he 

 should dig in his garden, or imitate Gladstone, by 

 becoming a woodman and a feller of timber. 



The wealthy merchant who daily drives in to his 

 City office from his suburban retreat, or takes his seat 

 on the downy couch of a Pulman's drawing-room car> 

 and in the hurry-skurry anxiety of business, too often 

 neglects his mid-day chop, not however, the City 

 li.mquets, where, with an empty stomach, and a jaded 

 brain, he partakes of all sorts of indigestible dishes and 

 adulterated wines, which derange the stomach, congests 



* "Action of Drugs on the Biliary Secretion," Lancet, Feb. 10, 1876. 



