DISEASES OF ADULT LIFE. $75 
keep the mindas well as the body pure. Thesum up of advice 
is, correct digestion and tone up the nerves. 
GALL STONES. 
These concretions in their passage through the gall duct 
cause the most excruciating pain. The trouble is not always 
understood. Wehave known ofa sufferer under our treatment, 
and that of some doctors, without the true cause of his pain 
being discovered. The usual mistake 1s to suppose the pain 
to be colic. The symptoms are, acute pains cf a sharp-cutting 
nature, felt about an hour after meals. When the effort of 
nature to send out the gall to carry on the work of digestion 
takes place, these pains are most distressing, causing the 
patient to double up and even faint away. The cause is not 
easily found out—it is the bile salts that crystalise and form 
into stones. From the fact that oil is the best treatment yet 
found, it may be inferred that there is a want of the fatty 
element in the blood, or a failure of the liver to secrete it. 
Bilious people are most lkely to suffer from gall-stones, as 
most of them cannot take fats. To cure—when the pain is felt, 
take a dose of hiera picra, as much as will lie on a sixpence. 
Follow this with from a quarter to a half pint of salad oil. If 
you cannot take it simple, it may be disguised in milk. To 
ease the pain, make a poultice of equal parts of powdered 
lobelia, slippery elm, and belladonna. Apply over the parts 
hot, and give a dose of anodyne tincture if the pain 
continues. Use the liver pills to keep the bowels free. This 
treatment, with a course of medicine every week, will cure and 
prevent severe returns of the trouble. 
CHOLERA MORBUS (ENGLISH CHOLERA). 
This complaint usually comes on very suddenly in hot 
‘sultry weather. ‘The causes are given, as deficient food, putrid 
meat, irritating foods, severe purgations, marsh poison, 
obstructed circulation, &c. The symptoms are, severe 
griping pains, purging, vomiting, the tongue is furred, the 
pulse quick, feeble, and sometimes irregular; there is thirst, 
