egion of the liver, and it is also felt in the
right shoulder, and between the shoulder-blades. In severe cases, there
is fever, accompanied with chills, despondency and loss of flesh. The
stools are generally of a light clay color, and very offensive; the
urine is thick and yellow. When the disease terminates fatally, there is
delirium followed by stupor.

TREATMENT. The first step should be to eliminate from the system, as
speedily as possible, all noxious materials. For this purpose, the
spirit-vapor bath should be used. If the urine is scanty or voided with
difficulty, take acetate of potash or queen of the meadow. These may be
taken in connection with the Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative
Pellets, the efficacy of which has already been described in the
treatment of chronic inflammation of the liver. They are indeed valuable
agents in this disease, since they increase the action of all the
excretory glands, and rapidly remove those matters, which, if retained,
would poison the system.

In some cases, acids are of great value; good hard cider or hydrochloric
acid and the acid bath are frequently valuable agents.

In other cases the employment, both internally and externally, of
alkalies in addition to the Golden Medical Discovery answers the purpose
much better.

Again, there are persons who, in addition to alteratives and baths,
require tonics. In the treatment or this affection, whatever may be the
nature of the case, the use of _alteratives_ must not be forgotten, for
_without_ them, the auxiliary treatment with acids, alkalies, and
tonics, will not produce the desired effect.

The employment of drastic remedies is sometimes resorted to; but,
although they may give temporary relief, the patient soon relapses into
his former condition, while if the treatment above given be adopted, the
recovery will be permanent.

GALL-STONES. (BILIARY CALCULI.)

These are concretions found in the gall-bladder or bile duct, and vary
from the size of a pea to that of a hen's egg. There may be no
indication of their existence in the gall-bladder until they begin to
pass through the duct.

CAUSES. The formation of gall-stones is undoubtedly due to an unhealthy
condition of the bile. Corpulent persons, and those indulging in
over-stimulating diet, or in the habitual use of fermented drinks, are
most liable to be troubled by them.

SYMPTOMS. The patient is suddenly seized with excruciating pain in the
right side. Af