Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-08-21
TREATMENT oF RlLIousNEss.

What an English Physician Has to Say
OF the Aiiment-A Word or Two.
The symptoms Of biliousness are UNI
happily but too well known. They diff
fer in different individuals to some ex-
tant, however. A bilious man is seldom
q breakfast eater. Two frequently, alasl
he has an excellent appetite for liquids,
but none for solids of a morning. His
tongue will hardly bear inspection at any
time; IL 1t is not white and furred, IL Is
rough at all events. The digestive sys-
tom is wholly out Of order; diarrhea, or
constipation, may be SYMPTOM, or the
two may alternate. There are very often
hemorrhoids, or loss Of blood even.
There may be giddiness, and often
headache, and acidity or fatuience, and
tenderness at the pit Of the stomach
The pain felt in the right shoulder would
indicate an extra bad case, but apart
from this, there are aching 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 torpor
by day, and sleeplessness at night, and
all sorts and conditions of mind, es-
pecially irritability; fits of bad temper
that come on suddenly and go off again,
and that none are 80 thoroughly 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 temporary
relief by relieving the over-gorged liver
This really is antiphlogistic treatment,
but it assuredly is not radical. When
a fish pond overhows its banks, we may
let off a portion of the water, but after
this we ought, methinks, to find our
way to the other end of the pool and
lessen the inflow.
Well, just a word about treatment.
First and foremost then, in sudden bill
ious attacks, that are often accompanied
by great prostration, and by urgent vom-
iting, it is best to send for medical
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 suggesting
medicinal remedies in this paper, for the
simple reason that cases differ SO.
Little good viii accrue from treating a
case like this, however, if, when he is
once more well, the patient returns to
his old non-hygienic habits of life.
What am | to do them" 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 extent, 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 over-wony yourself. And you
are not to shirk the morning tub nor
plenty of exercise.
What are you to do for the acidity?
Abstemiousness, and regulation of diet
and habits, will entirely Danish it, and
you will have the pleasure of knowing
that its absence is a sign of regeneration
of the liver
If you but try week of the treatment
/ suggest, I feel convinced you will once
more feel a pleasure in life, and an in
terest in all your surroundings.
But acidity often leads to rheumatism,
and on this subject / hope to have more
to say another day. shall be quite sat
isf1ed with my present paper if it put a
few of my readers on the right road to
health, and that can only be got at by
seeking for and removing first causes in
stead of treating symptoms Family
Doctor in Cassell's Magazine.