ter a time it subsides, but is again renewed with as great
severity as before. There is nausea, with vomiting, which is often
excessive and severe. The pulse is sometimes slower than is natural, the
extremities are cold, there is great exhaustion, together with
perspiration and spasmodic contraction of the abdominal muscles. As soon
as one stone has passed through the duct into the intestine, immediate
relief is experienced until another commences to pass, and the larger
the concretion, the greater is the pain. If the stools be washed, the
gall-stones may be seen floating on top of the water.

TREATMENT. This consists chiefly in relieving the patient of pain and
vomiting during the passage of the gall-stones. Hot fomentations made
with stramonium leaves and lobelia, and applied over the painful parts,
are beneficial. Small doses of lobelia may be taken, but not in
sufficient quantities to produce vomiting. Doses of opium should also be
taken; this anodyne must, however, be used with care. Gelseminum is
often useful. Chloroform, ether, or the spirit vapor-bath generally
allays the pain. Carbonate of soda, dissolved in water, often relieves
the vomiting.

These distressing symptoms are apt to recur until the removal of all the
gall-stones is effected. To aid in removing them, take the Golden
Medical Discovery rather freely for a day or two, and continue its use
with lobelia, in doses sufficiently large to produce nausea, but not
vomiting. From four to eight ounces of sweet oil may be given, and, if
the bowels do not respond within three hours, repeat the dose, and the
gall-stones will generally be evacuated. To prevent the formation of
these concretions take the Golden Medical Discovery, together with
alkaline drinks made with carbonate of soda. Tone and energy will
thereby be imparted to the liver, the free flow of bile will be insured
and the subsequent formation of gall-stones prevented.

INTESTINAL WORMS.

We have not the space to discuss the numerous theories which have been
offered to account for the presence of these parasites in the human
body. We shall enumerate the principal species, describe the symptoms
indicating their presence, and indicate the proper remedies.

There are five species of intestinal worms, sufficiently common to merit
a description.

(1.) The round worm, termed by naturalists, _ascaris lumbricoides_,
varies from six inches to a foot in length, and resembles the common
earth-worm. I