The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner.

Date:
1900
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Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JAUNDICE, ETC., AND CONSTIPATION G1 fever, or dysentery, so jaundice sliows that the liver is out of order. Yellowness of the skin and of the eyes is a suffi- cient indication of jaundice, which may accompany any form of liver disease. These forms of disease are so various and intricate that a detailed description of them would be confus- ing and useless. You must therefore treat symptoms. In all cases give one of the strong or mild purg- ing pills, and half a blue pill, every night for four nights running. If there be much pain over the liver, put on a turpentine fomentation (Keceipt No. 17) once or twice only, and, if the pain be intensely severe and come on suddenly, give an opium pill, but do not repeat it unless absolutely necessary. ]Most disorders of the liver are known by a pain in the right shoulder, a dull aching on the right side, sluggishness of the bowels, and excessive general weakness. Some forms of liver disease are caused by drink- ing, some ])y dysentery, and some by the passage of a gallstcne ; but you cannot do more than that above indicated, and you will hud, after reaching temperate latitudes, that the patient will generally improve. CONSTIPATION. An obstinate confinement of the bowels is often aggravated rather than relieved by the use of pur- gatives. (live two compound rhubarb pills every
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