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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Case Of Enlargement Of The Liver With Jaundice Cured By Chelidonium. A lady of seventy, stout, and given to very little exercise, came under my observation, and on examination I found her severe and frequent right-sided pains were due to a swelled liver, which was tender in pressure. Skin and conjunctive subicteric, motions containing but very little bile; urine on the contrary loaded with it. She was at the seaside and this it was, she said, that had upset her liver. Tongue coated, giddy, low-spirited, pulse intermittent, insomnia, lethargic, loss of appetite, fear of death. Chelidonium majus in small material doses resulted in complete recovery in ten days, when she returned home with a regular pulse, clear eyes and skin, and all the functions normal, and very decidedly of opinion that life, even at seventy years of age, is not at all a bad thing. Enlarged Liver And CongesTion Of The Right Lung, Cured By Chelidonium. A young officer in the Army was invalided home from India for liver and lung disease and cameto me. I found his liver large and tender, the right lung engorged, his skin very muddy, bowels costive, and he was dreadfully depressed and weak. He was quite sure he was in consumption. The lung affection I regarded as consecutive to the engorgement of the liver, there being, in the words of Rademacher, a primary affection of the inner liver. Chelidonium in small material doses quite restored him to health in three weeks. In due course he returned to his regiment. Case Of Pronounced Jaundice Cured By Chelidoninm. A middle-aged gentleman, a merchant, returned from the East Indies with very severe jaundice, which had resulted in considerable emaciation. The voyage home and a stay of some duration in the north had not mended matters. He was very depr...