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this purpose a purgative electuary, having a base of soda salts, 

 and emetics : tartar emetic 6 grammes, sulphate of soda 300 grammes ; 

 rye-flour and water (q. s.), or calomel given in small doses (3 

 grammes). A subcutaneous injection of eserine may also be given 

 (sulphate of ' eserine 0.1 gramme, distilled water 10 grammes), or of 

 eserine and pilocarpine (of each 0.1 gramme). 



2. In order to stop abnormal fermentations of the stomach 

 and intestine, hydrochloric acid is recommended (dose, 10 to 15 

 grammes a few hours after meals). Table salt (20 to 30 grammes), 

 alkaline carbonates, especially bicarbonate of soda (25 to 30 

 grammes) may also be used to counteract it. Gastro-intestinal 

 catarrh, accompanied by much flatulence, with acidity of the con- 

 tents of the intestine, yields quite rapidly to hyposulphite of soda 

 (hyposulphite of soda 150 grammes, calamus 25 grammes, althaea 

 powder, and water q. s. to make an electuary. Creolin in doses of 

 5 to 15 grammes is useful as an antizymic (creolin 15 grammes ; 

 pulv. licorice-root 15 grammes, althaea powder, water q. s. for three 

 pills. Give one pill a day). 



3. When weakness of the stomach predominates, we must use 

 the so-called stomachics, at the same time giving hydrochloric acid. 

 Pepsin must first be recommended (10 to 15 grammes), then the 

 alkalines, table salt sulphate of soda, and ammonia (sulph. of soda 

 300 grammes, chloride of sodium 100 grammes, chlorhydrate of 

 ammonia 50 grammes ; to be given in a dose of a tablespoonful per 

 meal). As vegetable stomachics, we administer white mustard (50 

 grammes of powder in electuary), pepper, ginger (10 grammes), 

 gentian (25 grammes), powdered rhubarb (15 grammes); bicarbo- 

 nate of soda and powdered licorice, of each 10 grammes, althaea 

 powder, and water q. s., the electuary to be given in three doses ; 

 aloes (5 grammes in a pill), the whole group of bitters (absinthe, 

 gentian, etc.), and also stimulant essences (auise, fennel, cumin, 

 juniper cones, etc.). 



4. Very small doses of calomel may be successfully used for 

 diarrhea in the early stages ; this agent is particularly useful when 

 there is evacuation of fetid excrements. We must then attempt to 

 stop diarrhea by a special diet (such as dry food, roasted oats and 

 flour, and some mucilaginous preparations). When these means 

 are not sufficient, we resort to astringents, beginning with oak- 

 bark and cinchona (25 grammes), sulphate of iron and alum (10 

 grammes), tannin (5 grammes). We then give them sugar of lead 



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