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London, England, 1824-09-27 00:00:00

LIVER COMMA I NT&
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Ssit—The following directions, &c. were Given by Mr. %bee
nethy, in the year 1813, to a Gentleman labouring under a Liver
Complaint. I think a perusal of them will be of use to many of
your numerous subscribers ; and in requesting you to give them
publicity,i can, from particular circumstances, assure you they
are, as nearly as possible, verbatim. I beg to remain, Sir, your
constant reatler,—Lambeth, August 28, 18'24. 1•• 1)
Mr. Aberhethy's Prescription and Directions for Liver
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" Rise early, Walk one hour before you take your
b:eakfast, let it he son.etLing that will agree with you,
411 t and easy of digestion, hot tea. Eat nothing in less,
than three hours siter a meal, nor go longer than six
hours with.iut eating, 1014 e this complaint is on you,
and chdose food of easy digestion for dinner. Hunger
and thirst are incompatible; therefore drink nothing
with your dinnef, that you may avoid diluting youi
gastric juice too much, and thereby render it inert, and
pieveat its producing its proper action on your food.
Two glasses of wine, however, may be allowed as a sti-
mulus to the stomadt. It iS probable that in two hours
after dinner you will be thirsty ; you may then drink,
but in a moderate quantity. Avoid smoking tobacco,
and fermented liquors. Use no exercise in less than
three hours after eating t full meal, that ail the energies
tl. your body may Use an Opptnjunity of exerting
themselves in digesting yonrfood. You may then walk,
ride, or use what exercise you please. Take no supper,
tiniest yin* dine early, and then let the food be light:
be in bed by ten o'cloek—Eiit stomach—enter bowels:
...Question—Are you costive? answer, yes.—Take a
little lenitive electuary, sufficient to produce a gentle
motion. Avoid purging. The feces should be brown,
the colour of rhubarb and water niiied. When of an
olive or soot colour, or black, the bile is vitiated; when

of a lightei yello* thin the fine brown, the bile is healthy,
but nqt toured out in sufficient quantity, or diluted too
much with liquids that you take. The remedy against
vitiated bile, or deficiency in the biliary function, is to
take every other night the common blue mercury pill,
called pilula hydrarg. to he purchased in a mass of one
ounce, at Apothecaiies' Hall, to be made into pills by

yourself, as you want them ; each pill, the size of a mar-
row-fat pea, will contain about five grains of mercury.
This is the most valuable medicine yet known as an al-
terative. It must on no account be taken in a greater
quantity than here specified. I am a surgeon, and
know from experience that any quantity of mercury
taken by the hub= subject, approximating to saliva-
tion, injures the functions of the liver for a great length
of time afterwards. The small quantity that I have
here laid down can hurt no one ; and, as I again repeat,
met cury is the only medicine that can at all be depended
upon for producing a healthy action in a morbid
liver or spleen. Should this quantity affect the gums
or throat, you must then lower it till nb such affection
be produced, or but just felt. I see no objection to your
sting yourself in cold water or cold bath.
" If you feel a desire to drink between breakfast and
dinner, you may take a little ginger or pennyroyal tea,
trade weak, which is to be considered as a stimulus to
the stomach instead of bitters.
‘‘ Should the stomach become weak after taking mer-
cury for any length of time, purchase at Apothecaries'
Il.tll one-fourth 11. Cascaiilla bark, infuse every limn-
ing oue.fourth ounce in siz spoonsful of hot water, which
cover up for two hours: take this quantity with a piece
of ship biscuit, four hours after breakfast."
Mr. Abernethy, like all other practitioncts who take up a fa-
vourite medicine, in general carries its use too far. Blue pill—blue
pill, ad i/finituns, is bis hobby. We think it an excellent alterative,
but it must neither be taken too frequently; nor long continued.—
A dose once a week is enough, and in the intermediate time a litde
rhubarb and magnesia is the best medicirte.—En.
TO MAKE MOCK MADERIA WINE.

To eighteen gallons of water put fifty-four pounds of
fine moist sugar; boil it for half an hour, and skim it well.
When cold, put to every gallon one quart of new ale
out of the vat, and let it work in the tub two days;
then put it into a cask, and when it is done fermenting,
put to it one pound of suar•candv, six pounds of jar-!
raisin, t:+•o bottles of brandy, and two onnces of isin-
glass dissolved in some of the %%Ole. Stop it down and
let it stand one year in the cask, then bottle it.
N.B.—S .me prefer setting the sugar and water to
work in one vessel, and the ale in another, for two days,
and then mixing them to lut into the cask. The
Economist.

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