32 DISEASES CLASS I. 1. 3. 8. 



M. M. Diluent liquids, and warm bathing, are the natural 

 cure of this symptom; but it generally attends those dropsies, 

 which are seldom curable; as they are owing to a paralysis both 

 of the cutaneous and cellular lymphatics. 



8. Calculus felleus. Gall-stone. From the too hasty absorp- 

 tion of the thinner parts of the bile, the remainder is left too 

 viscid, and crystallizes into lumps; which if too large 1o pass, 

 obstruct the ductus choledochus, producing pain at the pit of 

 the stomach, and jaundice. When the indurated bile is not 

 harder than a boiled pea, it may pass through the biie duct with 

 difficulty by changing its form; and thus gives those pains, 

 which have been called spasms of the stomach; and yet these 

 viscid lumps of bile may afterwards dissolve, and not be visible 

 among the feces. 



In two instances I have seen from thirty to fifty gall-stones 

 voided after taking an oil vomit as below. They were about 

 the size of peas, and distinguishable when dry by their being in- 

 flammable like bad wax, when put into the. flame of a canoie. 

 For other causes of jaundice, See Class I. 2. 4. 19. 



M. M. Diluents, daily warm bathing. Ether mixed with 

 yolk of egg and water. Unboiled acrid vegetables, as lettuce, 

 cabbage, mustard, and cresses. When in violent pain, four 

 ounces of oil of olives, or of almonds, should be swallowed; and 

 as much more in a quarter of an hour, whether it stays or not. 

 The patient should lie on the circumference of a large barrel, 

 first on one side, and then on the other. Electric shocks through 

 the gall-duct. Factitious Seltzer water made by dissolving one 

 dram of sal soda in a pint of water; to half a pint of which made 

 hike-warm add ten drops of marine acid; to be drunk as soon as 

 mixed, twice a day for some months. Opium must be used to 

 quiet the pain, if the oil does not succeed, as two grains, and 

 another grain in half an hour if necessary. See Class IV. 2. 2. 4. 



9. Calculus renis. Stone of the kidney. The pain in the loins 

 and along the course of the ureter from a stone is attended with 

 retraction of the testicle in men, and numbness on the inside of 

 the thigh in women. It is distinguished from the lumbago or 

 sciatica, as these latter are seldom attended with vomiting, and 

 have pain on the outside of the thigh, sometimes quite down to 

 the ancle or heel. See Herpes and Nephritis. 



Where the absorption of the thinner parts of the secretion 

 takes place too hastily in the kidneys, the hardened mucus, arid 

 consequent calculus concretions, sometimes totally stop up the 

 tubuli uriniferi, and no urine is secreted. Of this many die, 

 who have drunk much vinous spirit, and some of them recover 

 by voiding a quantity of white mucus, like chalk and water; and 



