DISEASES OF ADULT LIFE. 387 
be as much a meat one as possible, with brown bread and 
milk, buttermilk preferred. No sugar, but glycerine or 
saccharine may be used. Keep the skin and bowels clear. 
The liver pills will answer well here. 
GRAVEL AND STONE. 
This disease is caused by impurities left in the blood. 
Small sand-like particles are formed in the kidneys which 
Cause pain in their passage through the ureters or tubes that 
lead to the bladder and from the bladder when voiding its 
contents. In severe cases the symptoms are not unlike 
inflammation of the kidneys, but an examination of urine will 
Show that gravel is the trouble. Treatment: A strong 
decoction of the diuretics must be given :— 
Queen of Meadow Root.........+.++. One ounce. 
Wild Carrot Seed 4250, 7. fA eee. One ounce 
Peletory of the Wall ......... e000: ... One ounce, 
Parsley Pere gts dA s ear piae Seca One ounce. 
Put in three pints of water, simmer down to a quart, 
strain, press, and take a wineglassful every two hours til] 
Symptoms abate Should the pain be very great,a warm 
sitz-bath, into which put an ounce of laudanum ora decoction 
of four ounces of poppy heads, and take a teaspoonful of 
diuretic drops, prepared thus :— 
DIURETIC DROPS. 
swoet Nitra! 6, Mae Be ... Two ounces, 
Tincture of Opium ......... o+eeees Half ounce. 
A teaspoonful in a cupful of slippery elm gruel every hour till 
the pain subsides. To prevent the formation be careful with 
your diet. Take the digestive food once a day and a 
course of medicine once a week. 
Stone is a concretion that when any size forms in the 
bladder the same treatment will do for it with as much 
slippery elm as you can take. (See index). Lithontryptics— 
try them all till you succeed. 
