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Symptoms (Flow of dark blood)
A flow of dark blood from the pression in that organ. The blood is generally stomach, preceded by a sense of weight and opweight and opmixed with particles of food, etc. Distinguish it from spitting of blood, by its dark color, and being mixed with food. inflammatory, bleed or cup, and use some cooling Treatment. If the accompanying symptoms be riated tincture of iron, with six of laudanum, in a purge ; if otherwise, try fifteen drops of the muthe muglass of water, every hour till the bleeding ceases. If the cause be a diseased liver, or tumor in the neighborhood, treat it accordingly.
Inflammation of the Liver.
Symptoms. A dull pain in the right side below This common and distressing affection is gene- the rib, which is more sensible on pressure; an rally connected with indigestion. To relieve it for the moment, magnesia, soda, or Seltzer water, or water acidulated with sulphuric acid, may be employed. To cure the complaint requires the digestive powers to be strengthened by tonics, bitters, and the different preparations of iron, etc., as directed for indigestion. The application of a blister over the stomach may be of use. The white oxide of bismuth in six grain doses, three times a day, taken in milk, has been found of service.
Indigestion, or Dyspepsia.