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warm deobstrueni restoratives, giving one 

 every morning Avithout remission till the 

 whole are taken. 



Take Castile soap eiglit ounces ; 



Turmeric and filing of iron each four ounces; 

 Aniseed and elecampane each two ounces ; 

 Vitriolat^d tartar one ounce and a half; 

 Oil of aniseed three drachms. — Honey sufficient to 

 make the ma^s 5 and divide into a dozen balls. 



During tlie time of taking these, let the 

 former instruction relative to food, exercise, 

 dressing, &c. be strictly adhered to, with such 

 other little attentions as circumstances re- 

 quire ; remembering to relinquish the me- 

 dicines by gradations, as every other morn- 

 ing, or once in three, but not to discontinue 

 them entirely, till a/l symptoms totally dis- 

 appear. 



The distinct kind of this disease, arisiag 

 from a remote and very discouraging cause, is 

 that species originating in an induration of 

 (or schirrosities upon) the liver. I say discou- 

 raging, because little or no hope of per- 

 manent relief can be entertained, as may very 

 naturally be concluded from even a super- 

 ficial consideration of the case, not only by 

 its remote situation, so distant from the 



