The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . int will not keep up a regular condi-tion of the bowels daily, the following may be used: Take of Podophyl-lin four grains, Sulphate of Quinia eight grains, Alcoholic Extract ofNux Vomica two grains; mix the articles thoroughly together, and divideinto sixteen powders; or, they may be made into a pill mass, by theaddition of a sufficient quantity of the Alcoholic Extract of Black Cohosh,and divided into sixteen pills. The dose is one, two, or three of these
The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . int will not keep up a regular condi-tion of the bowels daily, the following may be used: Take of Podophyl-lin four grains, Sulphate of Quinia eight grains, Alcoholic Extract ofNux Vomica two grains; mix the articles thoroughly together, and divideinto sixteen powders; or, they may be made into a pill mass, by theaddition of a sufficient quantity of the Alcoholic Extract of Black Cohosh,and divided into sixteen pills. The dose is one, two, or three of these pills,or powders, according to their influence, to be taken at bedtime. TheCompound Tincture of Tamarac has been used with advantage in this dis-ease, as a tonic, laxative, alterative, and diuretic. When the countenance of the patient is pale and sallow, much benefitwill be derived from the Tincture of the Muriate of Iron, which may begiven in doses of ten drops in a wineglassful of water, and repeated threeor four times a day. Dropsical affections will require a similar treatmentto that named under the several varieties of INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. Acute Inflammation of the Kidneys, or Fig. 17. Acute Nephritis, may be located in the struc-ture of the kidney, or in its lining mem-brane, but more commonly both are impli-cated. One kidney may be affected, whilethe other remains healthy; and from sympa-thy, the bladder, testicles, and other parts ofthe urinary organs may become affected. Symptoms. The disease is usually pre-ceded by chilly sensations and febrile symp-toms, as in other inflammatory attacks;these are followed by a deep-seated painabout the loins, in the region of the kidneyaffected, which pain is aggravated by firmpressure, by jolts, and by moving pain frequently shoots downward to the «• Torula Cerevisise, found in urine . .., x i Pjl ,i i n,i after it has undergone saccharine ier- grom, With a numbness Ot the thigh of the mentation. I. Tes
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