£72 JAUNDICE. 



poAver of the most active medicine ; ttie great 

 certainty of no advantage being obtained but 

 by the circuitous communication through the 

 medium of the blood, and the additional re- 

 flection, palpably clear to the judgment of 

 every reader, that no solvent can probably 

 be conveyed through the circulation otili/, 

 sufficiently powerful to resolve or extirpate 

 either szvelling^ schirrosity, or tubercle, upon a 

 part so distant from the seat of action as that 

 we now treat oL 



As the necessary steps for palliation of 

 symptoms, or hope of cure^ will consequently 

 be expelled, bleeding {?> oi course premised, to 

 reduce the contents and take off some degree 

 of stricture from the vessels ; remove ob- 

 structions in the body by mashes of ;;^a/^and 

 bran and for two or three days, as before 

 directed, then proceed to the course of mcr^ 

 rwm/ purging balls here recommended, at- 

 tending to the mode of treatment so often 

 repeated : 



Take Barbadnes aloes one ounce ; 

 Castile soap half an ounce ; 

 Jalap and calomel each two drachms ; 

 Ginger one draclim ; 



Oil of jumper and art'sced each twenfy drops ; 

 Syrup safficient to form the ball for one dose. 



