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thofe who have drunk much fpirituous liquor, and is generally 

 fucceeded by dropiy and death. 



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

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

 inflammation are removed by evacuations, ats like a charm in 

 removing the remainder of the inflammation, and by promoting 

 the abforption of the new veflels or fluids ; like the application 

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

 thickened coats of the bile-daft become reduced, or the enlarge- 

 ment of the liver leflened, and a free paiTige is again opened for 

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

 mended, as having a tendency to diflblve infpiflated hile. And 

 a decoction of madder is recommended for the fame purpofe ; 

 bscaufe the bile of animals, whofe food was mixed with madder, 

 ound always in a dilute flate. Aerated alkaline water, or 

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

 \vatcr-cr jfles, muftard. Horfes are faid to be fubject to infpif- 

 fked bile, with yellow eyes, in the winter feafon, and to get vv.eii 

 as Toon as they feed on the fpring grafs. 



The largeft bile-ftone I have feen was from a lady, who had 

 parted with it fome years before, and who had abilained above 

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

 fuppofed, a colic of her ftomach, which was probably a pain 

 of the biliary duct ; on reluming the ufe of fome vegetable diet, 

 {he recovered a better ftate of health, and formed no new bilious 

 concretions. 



A ftrong aerated alkaline water is fold by J. Schweppe, No. 

 8, King-ftreet, Holborn. See Clafs I. I. 3. 10. 



20. Pelvis renalis inirritabilitas . Inirritability of the pelvis 

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

 fpiflated 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 fituation 

 increafes by new apportions of indurated animal matter, in tli2 

 fame manner as the ftone of the bladder. This is the general 

 caufe of haemorrhage from the kidney ; and of obtufe pain in it 

 on exercife ; or of acute pain, when the (lone advances into thr 

 ureter. See Clafs I. i. 3. 9. 



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