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Baths, use of, in diabetes mellitus, 225 in chronic intestinal catarrh, 714, 716 in intestinal indigestion, 632 in gout, 130 in gonorrhoeal rheumatism, 107 cold, use of, in acute gastritis, 470 hot, use of, in hepatic colic, 1082 in muscular rheumatism, 77 in rachitis, 163 in rheumatoid arthritis, 99 hot sand, use of, in local treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, 101 local vapor, use of, in rheumatoid arthritis, 100 mineral, use of, in rheumatoid arthritis, 99 mud, in rheumatoid arthritis, 100 warm and cold, use of, in acute intestinal catarrh, 692 salt, in rachitis, 163

Beading of ribs in rachitis, 152

Beef-essences, use of, in intestinal indigestion, 633

Beef-tea, use of, in entero-colitis and cholera infantum, 754 in rachitis, 161

Beef tape-worm, 933

Belladonna, use of, in cancerous peritonitis, 1122 in constipation, 458, 654 in enteralgia, 665 in spasmodic stricture of oesophagus, 421

Benzoate of sodium, use of, in intestinal indigestion, 636

Benzoic acid, use of, in acute rheumatism, 62

Bifid tongue, 349

Bile, action of, in digestion, 621 composition of, 1062 in pus of hepatic abscesses, 1007 in urine, tests for, 978

Bile-ducts, catarrh of, 1051

Biliary calculi, 1058 seat, 1066 origin and development, 1061-1063 number, shape, and composition, 1059-1061 impaction of, 1074 treatment of, 1079 fistulæ, 1068, 1074 form of intestinal indigestion, diagnosis, 631 passages, affections of. See Liver, Diseases of. occlusion of, 1082

Biliousness, 965

Bill of fare for diabetics, 221

Bilharzia hæmatobia, 948

Bismuth subnitrate, use of, in entero-colitis and cholera infantum, 759 in acute yellow atrophy of liver, 1030 in cancer of stomach, 576 in cholera morbus, 725 in functional dyspepsia, 457 in gastralgia, 463 in chronic gastritis, 478 in acute intestinal catarrh, 693 in vomiting of abscess of liver, 1021 in simple ulcer of stomach, 523

Bitartrate of potassium, use of, in ascites, 1179

Bitter waters, use of, in intestinal indigestion, 636

Black pepper, use of, in hemorrhoids, 923 in proctitis, 919 in intestinal ulcer, 827 stools in cancer of stomach, 550 tongue. See Glossitis parasitica.

Bladder and kidneys, influence of, on causation of gastralgia, 460

Bleeding, use of, in intestinal obstruction, 864

Blindness in scurvy, 181

Blisters, use of, in acute rheumatism, 63, 68 in cirrhosis of liver, 1002 in rheumatoid arthritis, 100, 101

Blood, alterations of, in diabetes mellitus, 206 coagulable state of, as a cause of thrombosis and embolism of portal vein, 1095 lesions, in acute yellow atrophy of liver, 1029 in cholera morbus, 721 in gout, 115 in acute rheumatism, 31 in scurvy, 173 extravasation of, into skin in scurvy, 178 presence of fat in, in diabetes mellitus, 206, 207 watery condition of, in cirrhosis of liver, 995

Bloodletting, use of, in acute intestinal catarrh, 690 in acute peritonitis, 1145

Blood-vessels, disease of, as a cause of hemorrhage from bowels, 832 lesions of, in diabetes mellitus, 200 in gout, 117 in acute peritonitis, 1133

Bloody stools in chronic intestinal catarrh, 708

Boiled-sago matter in stools of dysentery, 803