152 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



The patient may take, as often as he is thirsty, half a tumbler 

 of the 



GREAT FEBRIFUGE COLD SPRING WATER, 



also lemonade, if it can be procured, or a little vinegar, sugar, and 

 water combined, and cold toast or barley water. This course regu- 

 larly persevered in, will cure all cases of bilious remittent fever in 

 our Southern and Western country, unless there is some organic 

 disease of the system. But the disease is usually protracted under 

 the best treatment, and requires perseverance and confidence in the 

 means used. 



Beware of making any changes in the above treatment at the 

 suggestion of mineral doctors, or of meddlesome and gossiping old 

 women, or others. And should medical counsel be really required, 

 call in a physician of the 



REFORMED SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, 



any one of whom will be found more safe and successful than any 

 others in the treatment of these diseases. 



See " American Practice and Family Physician," a work which 

 should be in the hands of every family. 



CHAPTER IX. 



OF DIGESTION. 



IN order to repair the waste of their bodies which is continually 

 going on, there is a necessity in all organized beings for nourishing 

 matter to be taken from without, to be added to their system. 

 Vegetables depend on extraneous matter for subsistence, which is 

 taken up by the roots, and distributed by means of the sap-vessels. 

 But the grand characteristic of animals, is their possessing a 

 stomach, a central cavity, into which the nourishing matter is first 

 put, to be from thence taken up into the circulation, and so distri- 

 buted all over the system. The stomach and bowels constitute the 

 proper digestive apparatus, and several other organs which co- 



