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their virtues. But experiments on this subject have been too much neglected 

 to afford us all the information we need. I have found the use of the dande- 

 lion in the treatment of this disease to be a most valuable remedy. Indeed I 

 may here observe that in the treatment of liver complaint the same precaution- 

 ary remarks as those on indigestion, will also apply to this disease — that sick 

 headache, foul tongue, or heaviness in the region of the stomach, will indicate 

 the necessity of giving a mild emetic of ipecacuanha; and should there be 

 great heat, inflammation, or feverish ness, the use of warm lemonade or a dose 

 of salts mixed in warm water, and bathing the feet in warm water, so as to 

 produce perspiration or determination to the surface will afford relief. Should 

 the bowels be costive, regulate them with the following valuable pills: Take 

 extract of butternut, 30 grs. ; powdered jalap, 20 grs.; soap, 10 grs. Mix. 

 Make 15 pills. Three or 4 is a dose. The extract of butternut has been found 

 one of the best cathartics in fevers, and as a general purgative medicine. 



Dr. Wilson, in the Medico-Chirurgical Review, says: "The more the dan- 

 delion is employed the more certain proofs it will afford of its great virtues," 

 — a fact to which my experience enables me to testify. In my own practice, 

 more than a hundred cases have been cured either by the simple extract of the 

 herb and root, or by taking a tea-cupful of a strong decoction of dandelion 

 twice a day. In almost every instance I have succeeded in relieving and restor- 

 ing those who have used this most valuable plant of the fields. 



2. The dandelion is diuretic and aperient, and has a direct action upon 

 the liver and kidneys when languid; and is likewise applicable to all derange- 

 ments of the digestive organs generally. In chronic inflammation of the liver 

 and spleen, in cases of deficient biliary secretions and in dropsical affec- 

 tions of the abdominal viscera or belly, it will be found very beneficial. 

 The inspissated (thick) extract is the most eflBcacious and active form of using 

 this plant, and maybe purchased at any drug store; the doses of these are 

 from 10 grs. to J^ dr. I have, however, generally used it in a decoction as 

 before mentioned. 



3. The constant application of hot poultices relieves the pain and hastens 

 cure. This is good for inflammation of any of the internal organs. 



For disordered liver, good strong thoroughwort (boneset) tea is a mother's 

 cure. For thorough case of biliousness there is nothing. better than Dr. Chase's 

 Cholagogue; it combines the antibilious ingredients that act directly upon the 

 liver in a mild and pleasant form, and is very effective in all malarial diseases. 



1. BRAIN— Inflammation or Concussion of.— The name given 

 to the injury supposed to be received by the brain from great violence inflicted 

 on the head, when there is.no organic injury discovered, neither fissure, frac- 

 ture, nor extravasation, either in the living or dead body. The same symptoms 

 occur when the head has not received any external injury, and when the shock 

 has appeared to have been sustained by the whole frame. A person may fall 

 from a height, light on his feet, and yet be affected with all the symptoms of 

 concussion of the brain. These vary in degree from the slight stunning which 

 follows almost every violence done to the head, to the loss of all sense and 



