MEDICINE. 
«nd it is worthy of remark, that the reco- 
very will be more speedy when fresh veget- 
ables alone, and no animal food are employ- 
ed, than when fresh animal food is made 
nse of without vegetables : the essence of 
malt, or of spruce, will often be found of 
considerable service. As there is generally 
an obstruction of the perspiration, we should 
endeavour to excite a gentle diaphoresis by 
means of the pulvis ipecacuanhse composi- 
tus, or by camphor, combined with nitre 
and opium ; vegetables are particularly use- 
ful, such as celery, water-cresses, cab- 
bages, mustard, horse-radish, and many 
others of the class Tetradynamia. As a 
free flow of urine is found to promote 
recovery, we should endeavour to solicit it 
by means of some of the preparations of 
squills; wine, chalybeates, bark, and the mi- 
neral acids, should be exhibited ; when lime 
or lemon juice cannot be procured, sour- 
krout, and what in Scotland is called souins, 
are very useful articles of diet : a solution 
of nitre in vinegar, in the proportion of 
from two to four ounces of the former to a 
quart of the latter, is strongly recommended ; 
■from one to two ounces, or more, may be 
given two, three, or four times, in the 
course of the day. The sponginess of the 
gums will be removed by a solution of the 
alum, or by astringent gargles, in which 
muriatic acid is a component part : the con- 
traction of tlie hams, and the livor and 
hardness of the calves of the legs will be 
relieved by warm fomentations and emol- 
lient poultices. A poultice of wood-sorrel 
should be applied to the ulcers, or if that 
cannot be procured, the nitrous vinegar may 
be employed ; but the best application is 
lemon juice. The remote causes must, as 
far as lies in our power, be avoided ; the 
greatest attention must be paid to cleanli- 
ness ; exercise must be enjoined ; and the 
air must be corrected by fires and ventila- 
tion. The only certain preventatives are, 
fresh vegetables, exercise, and the nitric 
acid. Oxygen should be introduced into 
the system, by such medicines as are known 
to contain it, or by inspiring it when chemi- 
cally produced. 
Jaundice is easily discovered from the 
yellow hue it produces. The cure consists 
in the removal of the exciting causes, and 
the alleviation of urgent symptoms ; the 
most frequent exciting causes are calculi, 
the passage of which will be promoted by 
gentle emetics ; for this purpose ipeca- 
cuanha is the best medicine ; it should be 
exhibited in small and divided doses, so as 
to occasion, for a time, a degree of nausea, 
but ultimately to produce its full effects : tlie 
costiveness must be removed by the calo- 
mel, combined with rhubarb and soap, or 
by administering oil of castor. Where the 
pain is very violent, attended with a slow 
pulse, the warm bath, and fomentations of 
the epigastrium, will be necessary, or blad- 
ders filled with hot water, or bags of hot 
sand applied to it ; opiates will be very ser- 
viceable, but as there is costiveness, the in- 
spissated juice of henbane would be a pre- 
ferable medicine ; aether, with yolk of egg, 
is recommended as having a tendency to dis- 
solve inspissated bile; unboiled acrid veget- 
ables are useful, as lettuce, mustard, cresses, 
&c. ; electric shocks should be passed 
through the duct at proper intervals ; muci- 
laginous diluents should be freely allowed, 
and emollient clysteis should be frequently 
injected. In cases of pyiexy, attended with 
local pain and dyspnoea, blood letting and 
the antiphlogistic regimen may be employed 
with great advantage ; and after the pain is 
removed, and the arterial energy becomes 
weakened, some of the preparations of iron 
may be used with great benefit ; Seltzer, or 
soda water, should be drank in moderate 
quantities, or it may be made at the time of 
taking if, by dissolving a drachm of the car- 
bonate of soda in a pint of water, and add- 
ing twenty drops of muriatic acid, drinking 
it off as soon as mixed ; or, instead of the mu- 
riatic acid, it may be saturated with carbonic 
acid, by means of Dr. Nooth’s glass appa- 
ratus. There is an artificial sort of Seltzer 
water sold in London, which is prepared in 
a much better manner than we are able to 
do it in general ; and the name of the pro- 
prietor is Schweppe. If the disease arise 
in consequence of tumors, or pressure of 
surrounding parts, small doses of calomel, 
or some other preparation of mercury 
may be useful, employing, at the same time’ 
some of the preparations of iron, or natural 
chalybeate waters ; gentle exercise on horse- 
back is particularly serviceable in promot- 
ing the passage of calculi, and preventing 
the stagnation of bile in the gall-bladder. 
CLASS IV. LOCALES. " 
LOCAL AFFECTIONS, 
A reference to the nosological table of 
the system we have selected in this work 
will prove this class to be of a very volumi- 
nous, as well as of a very complicated 
nature : and as we have already observed 
intended to take in every disease which 
could not easily be introduced under tjie 
preceding classes. More than half the ma- 
