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following ball, omitting it only at such times as purgation 

 shall have recommenced : 



Take of Purging mass . . . . 2J drachms. 

 Powder of digitalis . . .1 drachm. 

 Powdered nitre . . • 3J drachms. 



Soft soap, sufficient for a ball. 



Should the blister not have taken proper effect, twelve 

 hours after its application it may be repeated. In case the 

 disease appear to be merging into the chronic form, the 

 insertion of two or three setons through the skin of the 

 right side is a commendable practice. 



JAUNDICE. 



The remarkable j^ellowness of the skin, eyes, and mouth 

 in this disease have obtained for it the name of " Yellows." 



The symptoms oi ]siundice are the same as those of hepa- 

 titis. It has been said that vetches and green food produce 

 jaundice. We do not believe it. Its treatment is, like 

 enteritis, by alternatives. Try the following: 



Calomel 



Aloes 



Powdered gentian 



Castile soap 



2 



2 drachms. 

 2 drachms. 

 2 drachms. 



Form into a ball, and give night and morning until the 

 bowels are actively purged ; then continue only so much 

 of the same, for a week or ten days, as will keep the bowels 

 lax, not in a purging state. If the symptoms be such as 

 bespeak chronic inflammation or incipient consolidation, 

 blister the right side. In cases where costiveness is not 

 present, but, on the contrary, a relaxed state of the bowels 

 appears, give the following : 



Calomel 1 scruple. 



Blue vitriol J draciim. 



Gentian, in powder .... 3 drachms. 



Oak bark, in powder .... 3 drachms. 



Make into a ball, and give night and morning, unless the 



