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mental excitement are particularly to be avoided. Among the principal organic 

 diseases to which the heart is subject are pericarditis, carditis, endocarditis, 

 atrophy, hypertrophy, dilation and valvular diseases. 



Treatment. — In all cases of heart disease, the body and mind should be 

 cept as easy and cheerful as possible. The diet should be well regulated, — 

 I'ourishing but not stimulating. Coffee, tea, liquors, and tobacco must be 

 lispensed with. The feet should be constantly dry and warm, and occasion- 

 illy rubbed with mustard. 



For inflammatory diseases of the heart, the bowels, if costive, may be 

 Qoved with compound tincture of jalap. To each dose add 10 grs. of cream 

 of tartar. Keep up a perspiration till the pain is relieved, by giving a tea- 

 spoonful of compound tincture of Virginia snake-root; also a warm infusion 

 of pleurisy-root. Mustard-plasters over the chest and spinal column are also 

 to be employed. If the patient is troubled with sleeplessness, give 8 to 10 grs. 

 of compound powder of ipecac and opium. 



For palpitation, the tincture of digitalis, 10 or 15 drops 3 or 4 times a day, 

 has been found useful. When the nervous system is affected, give small quan- 

 tities of wine or spirits, or a few drops of laudanum or ether. 



For neuralgia, or breast-pang, gi ve a tea-spoonful of a mixture of equal 

 p?'-ts of laudanum, ether, and oil of castor. The powder of Indian hemp-root 

 may also be taken in doses of a small tea-spoonful 2 or 3 times a day. If the 

 stomach is acid, a tea-spoonful of soda in half a tumbler of water will cor- 

 rect it. 



1. INFLAMMATION OP THE LIVER.— Treatment.— Wher» 

 the bowels are confined, usually termed a costive state of the bowels, 1 pt. 

 of warm water, 1 table-spoonful of salt, and 1 tea-spoonful of hog's lard, as a- 

 ■clyster, will give relief; or take one or two of the following liver pills at bed- 

 time: 



Dr. Chase's Cathartic and Liver Pill.— Take podophyllin, 60 grs.; 

 leptandriu, sanguinarin, ipecac, and pure cayenne, each 30 grs.; make into 60 

 pills, with a little soft extract of mandrake or dandelion. This is the best pill 

 I have ever used, as a cathartic and liver pill, and to act on the secretions gen- 

 erally. As a purgative the dose is from 2 to 4 pills, for a grown person; 

 and as an alterative and substitute for blue mass, and to act on the liver, 1 

 pill once a day, or every other day. 



Remarks. — Should you not wish to go to the trouble of making this pill, 

 inquire at the drug store for it, or send 25 cents to the Chase Medicine Com 

 pany, Detroit, Mich., for it. 



"When, from any cause, the languor, sleepiness, furred tongue, etc., give 

 notice of an impending bilious attack, 4 or 5 of the liver pills should be 

 taken at night, and followed in the morning by a dose of infusion of senna 

 and salts, .or a dose of castor oil. Extract of dandelion made into pills with 1 

 gr. of leptandrin to each pill, 1 taken every night, is an excellent remedy. 

 From a long practical experience I have found that the dandelion is a most 

 valuable medicine for this complaint, and there are herbs to cure all diseases 

 provided by our Heavenly Father, if we would but seek them out and tesl" 



