

CLASS I. 2. 4. 20. OF IRRITATION. 



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those who have drunk much spirituous liquor, and is generally 

 succeeded by dropsy and death. 



M. M. Repeated emetics. Mild cathartics. Warm bath. 

 Electricity. Bitters. Then steel, which, when the pain and 

 inflammation are removed by evacuations, acts like a charm in 

 removing the remainder of the inflammation, and by promoting 

 the absorption of the new vessels or fluids; like the application 

 of any acrid eye- water at the end of ophthalmia; and thus the 



ickened coats of the bile-duct become reduced, or the enlarge- 



ient of the liver lessened, and a free passage is again opened for 



e bile into the intestine. Ether with yolk of egg is recom- 

 mended, as having a tendency to dissolve inspissated bile. Ancl 

 a decoction of madder is recommended for the same purpose; 

 because the bile of animals, whose food was mixed with madder, 

 was found always in a dilute state. Aerated alkaline water, or 

 Seltzer water. Raw cabbage, and other acrid vegetables, as 

 water-cresses, mustard. Horses are said to be subject to in- 

 spissated bile, with yellow eyes, in the winter season, and to get 

 well as soon as they feed on the spring grass. 



The largest bile-stone I have seen was from a lady, who had 

 parted with it some years before, and who had abstained above 

 ten years from all kinds of vegetable diet to prevent, as she 

 supposed, a cholic of her stomach, which was probably a pain 

 of the biliary duct; on resuming the use of some vegetable diet, 

 she recovered a better state of health, and formed no new bilious 

 concretions. 



A strong aerated alkaline water is sold by J. Schweppe, No. 8, 

 King-street, Holborn. See Class I. 1. 3. 10. 



20. Pelvis renalis inirritabilitas. Inirritability of the pelvis of 

 the kidney. When the nucleus of a stone, whether it be in- 

 spissated mucus, or other matter, is formed in the extremity of 

 any of the tubuli uriniferi, and being detached from thence falls 

 into the pelvis of the kidney, it is liable to lodge there from the 

 want of due irritability of the membrane; and in that situation 

 increases by new appositions of indurated animal matter, in the 

 same manner as the stone of the bladder. This is the general 

 cause of haemorrhage from the kidney; and of obtuse pain in it 

 on exercise; or of acute pain when the stone advances into the 

 ureter. See Class I. 1. 3, 9. 



