th of _July_ 1763, a
middle aged Woman, _Elizabeth Hosier_, was admitted into _St.
George_'s Hospital for a Jaundice, which came about a
Fortnight before. She had been blooded, and had taken some
Medicines, before I saw her. I ordered her a Vomit and Purge,
and to take too Scruples of the Soap Pills and Rhubarb daily;
and four Days afterwards the Vomit and Purge were repeated,
but without making any Change in her Disorder. On the 29th
she went into the warm Bath, and took a Vomit immediately on
coming out. After the Vomit she had some loose Stools, and
the icteric Symptoms went all off in a few Days. She
continued well for some Months; but I have been told, that
she has since relapsed.

When the Jaundice continues obstinate, there is hardly any
Thing has often a better Effect than the continued Use of
Decoctions of the Juices of succulent Plants, of Whey in the
Spring, Soap, and such like Medicines. The Baron _Van
Swieten_ tells us, that he has cured many obstinate Jaundices
by making the Patients drink daily a Pint or two Pints of a
Decoction of Grass, Dandelion, Fumaria, Succory, and such
like, prepared in Whey; to each Pint of which he added Half
an Ounce of _sal polychrest_, and an Ounce or two of Syrup of
the five aperient Roots; and by ordering them to drink the
Spa Water in Summer, and take freely of Soap, along with a
Decoction of the aperient Roots, in Winter. In those who were
cured by these Remedies, he says, Stones, or a kind of a
grumous calculous Matter, were always found in the Stools, as
the Jaundice was going off. He relates one very particular
Case of a Lady of sixty Years of Age, who had had a black
Jaundice for twelve Years, and was cured by continuing the
Use of these Medicines for eighteen Months; during the last
six Months of which she had a Looseness, and constantly
discharged by Stool a fetid granulated Matter of the Colour
of Clay;--and another singular Case of a Man who was cured by
living mostly upon Grass, and a Decoction of it, for two
Years together. The Man came at last to devour such
Quantities of it, and could distinguish the good Sort from
the bad so well, that the Farmers often used to drive him out
of their Fields. Vol. III. Sec.. 950.

_Glisson_ tells us, that Cattle are subject to bilious
Concretions in Winter, which ar