by tympany, dropsy, and death.

This paralysis or inirritability of the liver often destroys those who have
been long habituated to much fermented liquor, and have suddenly omitted
the use of it. It also destroys plumbers, and house-painters, and in them
seems a substitute for the colica saturnina. See Sect. XXX.

M. M. Aloe and calomel, then the bark, and chalybeates. Mercurial ointment
rubbed on the region of the liver. Rhubarb, three or four grains, with
opium half a grain to a grain twice a day. Equitation, warm bath for half
an hour everyday.

7. _Torpor Pancreatis._ Torpor of the pancreas. I saw what I conjectured to
be a tumour of the pancreas with indigestion, and which terminated in the
death of the patient. He had been for many years a great consumer of
tobacco, insomuch that he chewed that noxious drug all the morning, and
smoaked it all the afternoon. As the secretion from the pancreas resembles
saliva in its general appearance, and probably in its office of assisting
digestion, by preventing the fermentation of the aliment; as would appear
by the experiments of Pringle and Macbride; there is reason to suspect,
that a sympathy may exist between the salivary and pancreatic glands; and
that the perpetual stimulus of the former by tobacco might in process of
time injure the latter. See Tobacco, Article III. 2. 2.

8. _Torpor renis._ Inirritability or paralysis of the kidnies is probably
frequently mistaken for gravel in them. Several, who have lived rather
intemperately in respect to fermented or spirituous liquors, become
suddenly seized about the age of sixty, or later, with a total stoppage of
urine; though they have previously had no symptoms of gravel. In these
cases there is no water in the bladder; as is known by the introduction of
the catheter, of which those made of elastic gum are said to be preferable
to metallic ones; or it may generally be known by the shape of the abdomen,
either by the eye or hand. Bougies and catheters of elastic gum are sold at
N^o 37, Red Lion-street, Holborn, London.

M. M. Electric shocks, warm bath. Emetics. See calculus renis, Class I. 1.
3. 9. When no gravel has been previously observed, and the patient has been
a wine-drinker rather than an ale-drinker, the case is generally owing to
inirritability of the tubuli uriniferi, and is frequently fatal. See Class
I. 2. 4. 20.

9. _Punctae mucosae vultus._ Mucous spots on the face. These are owing to
the inactivity of the