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JAUNDICE.
secondly by passing it off, and thirdly to combat general
symptoms. Some extol emetics very highly, we question
the propriety of giving them. I have had .more success
with jaundice with the following simple recipe than I
have had from any other remedy.
1). Powdered Rhei, D i.
Castile soap, 5 ss.
Pulv. aloes, grs. xv.
Divide into twenty pills. Give three or four every
night. I have used the puccoon or blood root success-
fully in this disease, giving from forty to fifty drops three
times a day.
Hemlock, in combination with cinchone and podo-
phyllin, I have no doubt will prove efficacious if used
according to the following:
I. Ex. of hemlock, 5 ss.
Ex. of bark, 3 ii.
Podophylline, grs. vi.
Divide into four pills, and give two to. four daily.
A strong infusion of the bark of wild cherry in cold
water is a valuable remedy, it should be taken in wine-
glassful doses every three or four hours through the day.
Hempseed, boiled in milk, is highly extolled, may be
taken in any quantity.
When you have reason to suspect the presence of
calculi, obstructing the bile ducts, the nitro-muriatic
acids will be found of great service, given in doses of
five drops three times a day, increasing it daily until
two scruples can be taken.
In those attacks of jaundice .accompanied with pain
and vomiting, opium should be used to. allay the irri-240
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/240/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.