352 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
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Hydrastis ......cevecsousceseees Lwenty grains. 
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Mix and divide into twenty powders, and give one three times 
aday. This rarely fails to meet the severer cases; or take— 
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Divide and take same as former. 
BILIOUS OR REMITTENT FEVER. 
Bilious fever is found to prevail in most low marshy 
districts during the latter end of summer after heavy rains. 
The symptoms are, pains in the back, slight cough, restlessnes, 
sallow countenance, eyes yellow, mouth dry and parched, with 
bitter taste. Inthis case it seems the liver is at fault, as there 
is often felt oppression in the region of it; and the bile in the 
blood, indicated by the colour of the patient, shows the 
principal seat of the trouble to be located inthat organ. The 
symptoms by which it is ushered in are like those of the 
preceding. The chief points of difference are in the appearance 
of the skin and the continuance of the fever state, which 
while it remits in its severity at some time in the day, does not 
leave the patient free at any time during its continuance. It 
commences with langour, drowsiness, yellow tinge in the skin, 
bitter taste in the mouth, headache, fever, thirst, sometimes 
vomiting of bile. As arule there is constipation, the tongue Is 
often coated with a light brown colour, there is also oppression 
of the breath, and in severe cases delirium, the stools are 
very unnatural in colour and offensive. The cause of this 
fever, in addition to the climatic, are, bilious temperament, 
weakness of the stomach, which cannot digest fats, intemper- 
ance, in both eating and drinking. 
‘TREATMENT.—Samuel Thompson never failed to cure this 
fever by his course of medicine. If you look up his poetical 
directions you will see a specific for it. It is generally thought 
