Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
ABOUT BlLlOUSNESS.
A Useful Chapter for the Guidance
Families and individuals.

Useful Chapter for the Guidance OF
Families and individuals.
The symptoms of biliousness are IN
happily but too well known. They diff
fer in different individuals to some ex-
tent, however. A bilious man is seldom
breakfast-eater. Too frequently, alas!
he has an excellent appetite for liquids,
but none for the solids of morning.
His tongue will hardly bear inspection
at any time; if it is not white and
furred, it is rough at all events. The
digestive system is wholly out of order;
diarrhea,. or constipation, may be q
symptom, or the two may alternate.
There are very often hemorrhoids, or
loss of blood even. There may be gid
diness, and often headache, and aciditv
or fiatulence, and tenderness at the pit
of the stomach. The pain felt in the
right shoulder indicates an extra bad
case, but apart from this there are ach-
ing pains and even stiffness in the limbs,
with more or less of cramps in the limb
muscles, or burning in the palms of the
hands, with hot. perspiring feet.
There may be drowsiness and tor
por by day, and sleeplessness by
night, and all sorts of conditions
of mind, especially irritability, fits of
bad temper that come on suddenly and
go off again, and that none are so thor
oughly grieved at as the poor patient
himself. Bilious people generally fly
for relief to aperient pills, and there is
no doubt that they often afford tempo
rary relief by relieving the over-gorged
liver. This really is antiphlogistic
treatment, but it assuredly is not radi-
cal. When fish pond overtlows its
banks, we may let off a portion of the
water, but after this we ought, me-
thinks, to find our way to the other end
of the pool and lessen the inflow.
Well, just word about treatment.
First and foremost, then. in sudden bill
ious attacks, that are often accompan-
led by great prostratiOn, and by urgent
vomiting, it is best to send for a medl-
cal man. Such attacks generally come
on in the morning, at the time the body
is most weak. do not think upon the
whole [ should be justified in suggestin g
medicinal remedies in this paper, for
the simple reason that cases differ SO.
The mineral tonics and bitter vegetable
tonics often do good. So does nuX vom-
lea and aconite. Then there is dande-
lion, and chloride of ammonium, and
alkalies. But can only generalize. A
blue pill and colocynth, followed next
day by a glass of Pullna water, will
ward off many an attack if the patient
goes in for preventive measures after
ward and follows q course of rational
living. The podophyllin pill, from a
quarter to a half a grain of the extract,
in three to five OF extract of hyoscy-
anus, may do as we'll as the blue pill, it
not better Soda water and lithia water
and milk should be drunk next day, and
very little solid food taken, though beef
tea mixed with arrowroot will be found
very nourishing; or raw egg beaten
up in milk. Little good will accrue
from treating a case like this, however,
if when he is once more we'll, the pa
tent returns to his old, non-hygienic
habits of life.
.What am I to do then?' may be
asked will tell you what you are not
to do. You are not to over-eat; you
are not to use sugar or fat to any ex-
tent, buildings, pastry or cheese. You
are not to touch alcohol. You are not
to sit in over-heated rooms. You are
neither to over-work nor worry your
self And you are not to shirk the morn
ing tub, nor plenty of exercise. What
are you to do for the acidity? Abstemi-
BUSINESS, and regulation of diet and hab.
its, will entirely Danish it, and you will
have the pleasure of knowing that its
absence is a sign of rejuvenatlon of the
liver. If you but try week of the
treatment I suggest, feel convinced
you will once more feel pleasure in
life and an interest in all your surround
ings. But acidity often leads to rheu.
matism. shall be quite satisfied with
my present paper if it puts few of my
readers on the right road to health, and
that can only be got at by seeking fol
and removing first causes instead o.
treating symptoms.-CasseWs Family
Ma0azi,1e