PATHOLOGY.. 01 



The mixture may be given every six or eight 

 hours : or it may be give;; uj the form of a ball. 



Take gum aruoic in fine powder, six drams; 

 pure opium, one dram ; mucilage fufficient 

 to form the ball. 



One of these may be given every day, until the 

 loofenefs is stopped. Let the patient's drink be 

 warm gruel, which may be given immediately 

 after the ball. 



But if it proceed from a too great fecretion of 

 bile, which may be known by the bile appearing 

 in, and tinging the excrements of a dirty brown 

 or reddish colour, we must, in this case, endeavour 

 to correct the liver, and at the same time to put a 

 stop to tiie irritation ; for which the following pre- 

 scription will be found very useful : 



Take calomel, the best opium, of each half a 

 dram ; linseed meal, half an ounce ; con- 

 serve sufficient to form the ball. 



One of the above balls may be given even^ 

 morning and evening until the disease is removed. 



In all the above cases, gentle exercise, with 

 -warm clothing, will be found advantageous. 



