044 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOUTOR, 
of lobelia. Put the compound mustard plaster over the seat 
of pain, and make a decoction of the following :— 
Leptandrum or Black Root.............. One ounce. 
PFANGONION 5 aden eet ace eore aA Two ounces.. 
Liverwort ...... bee ae artes Fe ae ee a One ounce. 
Juniper Berries....... sepctenersisthew ahs tees One ounce. 
Capiscums......... sstel Lated abe eked ta a, One drachm.. 
Bruisethe roots and simmerin three pints half an hour: then put 
in the other, let them stay five minutes longer, strain off, cool,. 
and give a wineglassful every two hours til] the bowels move 
two or three times a day ; then regulate the dose accordingly.. 
The above mixture may be changed for the hepatic powder, 
and, if needed, the liver pills. When the severer symptoms 
are subdued, a light nourishing diet, the dandelion coffee, pure,,. 
will be much better asa diet drink than tea or the ordinary 
coffee. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS (Enteritis). 
This, like that of the stomach, is a very dangerous and even 
more painful form. ‘To understand it aright it is necessary to: 
briefly consider the anatomy of the intestines The smaller, 
which is the longest portion of the alimentary canal, is a 
tube about an inch in diameter, composed of three coats It 
is coiled up inthe abdomen When it is in a high state of 
inflammation the walls swell to such an extent that the tube 
is closed, and as post-mortem examinations prove, it may 
become in some of its parts more like a tumour than intestine. 
This fact will prove the fallacy of the usual treatment. 
which nearly always results in death to the patient 
in from one to four days. Symptoms: It is usually 
ushered in by a chill which lasts some time, followed 
by severe pain in the abdomen; shooting and cutting 
round the region of the navel, obstinate costiveness, the 
bowels being closed up, urine high coloured, pulse rapid 
and contracted, and an intense desire to move the bowels. 
The patient usually cries for this, and herein is the cause of 
the irrational and often fatal treatment of giving purgatives. 
