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DISEASES OF THE SPLEEN.

Ordered two cups; the-former prescription had been
beneficial, but for the purpose of producing a healthy
tone, we ordered peruvian bark, 3ss.; cream of tartar,
same amount, every four hours. Another cupping was
ordered, and in a few days, during which time he took
the spleen mixture, he was completely relieved.
Second Case.-Mrs. J. consulted me on the 4th Sept.,
1845 ; she was very pale, and considerably emaciated;
her feet were slightly oedematous, tongue white; pulse
91 and weak.    The spleen was very much enlarged,
and very painful on pressure. She was quite costive,
complained of headache, had little or no appetite, was
becoming progressively weaker daily. We ordered four
cups, and the following prescription:
1 . Pulv. cinchonae,            5i.
Cream Tartar,              3i.
Nitrate Potash,            5ii.
This was mixed intimately together, and a tea-spoonful
given before each meal, for four days.
Sept. 9th.-,Feels much better, but very weak; spleen
not decreased; two cups were ordered and the spleen
mixture, with the addition of a scruple of quinine.
Sept. 10th.--Has had chilly sensations, the mixture
produced two stools; took, another dose this morning,
discharges watery.
Sept. 11th.--No sensations.of chill to-day, and she
thinks herself better; the morbid sensibility of the
spleen is much reduced, and the tumefaction is smaller;
ordered the cups and same mixture, so as to produce
about two actions daily.
Sept. 17th.-The above mixture was continued from

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