BILIOUSNESS.
(Hospital.)
If.we look on "biliousness" as due to a ".torpid liver which requires stimulating. to land ourselves in the fogs of some cf the most disputed points in therapeutics ; but if we accept what physiological pathology teaches, viz., that it 13 the result of an inflammatory change in the mucous lining of the stomach and duodgnuxn, the treatment becomes plain. Simple, unirrifoting food, which will not injure the tender lining o? the stomach, an,d wjll not by." its fermentation stretch and ntrftin it, together with auch,aparients aa'wiU draia'it-'speedily of its contents and leave it soon at test, give us the best hope of. quick relief. The treatment of a 'bilious attack ia then to be couducted not on vague actions of stimulating the liver, but in acpordance with the well-known principles of treating inflammation wherever it may arise— rest so far as may be to the inflamed part* and drainage (by blue pill) to remove toe. products of its inflammation.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5303, 6 July 1895, Page 2
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161BILIOUSNESS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5303, 6 July 1895, Page 2
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