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the gastric juice is deficient, and we believe this was the case with 

 our patient; he had been previously dosed ad nauseam with 

 Aloes, but all to no purpose; a week's treatment with Alumina, 

 two doses a day, served to effect a most satisfactory cure. 



Kali bichromiciim 3X. Cases of chronic indigestion, attended 

 with troublesome diarrhoea and the tongue coated with a yellow, 

 fur which, if removed, leaves behind a raw surface, will generally 

 yield to this drug. 



Nux vomica 3X. No treatise on dyspepsia would be complete 

 that did not include this remedy among its prescriptions; indeed, 

 so great has the faith of sincere homoeopathists been in ' 'Nux vom. 

 for indigestion " that we have known cases — not a few — where 

 disappointment has followed its use and some discredit brought 

 upon Hahnemann's system in consequence of the blind faith put 

 in this drug for all sorts of cases of indigestion; Nux vomica, like 

 every other remedial agent, has its own field of operation, and the 

 following may be accepted roughly as the symptoms which indi- 

 cate its selection: Pain, accompanied by some distension; faeces 

 hard and difficult of expulsion, frequent attempts to effect a pas- 

 sage with much straining; retching occasionally, but not neces- 

 sarily, occurs; the animal becomes dull, heavy and comatose ; flatu- 

 lence and acid-smelling eructations are observable; the back part 

 of the tongue, only, is coated with fur; the horse absolutely refuses 

 all kinds of food, nor is much water required. 



THE INTESTINES. 



Before attempting to describe the various disorders affecting 

 this part of the digestive tract, we may with advantage explain 

 how anatomists artificially divide the canal for the sake of distinc- 

 tion. The small intestines which commence at the opening out 

 of the stomach called the pyloric orifice consist of three divisions; 

 the first known as the duodenum which, as the horse stands, pro- 

 ceeds in an upward direction, over the rounded surface of the 

 liver, supported by a mesh-like membrane called the omentum; 

 the duodenum here receives the duct or tube which conveys the 

 bile from the li^'er and the juice from the pancreas, both of which 

 have been referred to as essential products for the completion of 

 digestion; this tube enters the duodenum, about five or six inches 

 from the pyloric opening; the duodenum then passes over the 



