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It is necessary likewise that the qualities of the saliva be natural; for alterations in the nature of this liquor affect very much the sense of taste; if it is bitter, which sometimes happens in bilious complaints, all kinds of food have a bitter taste; if it is sweet, the food has a faint and unpleasant flavour; and if it is acid, the food too tastes sour.

Mercurials, being also Cholagogues, are especially useful in bilious habits.

Mercurials increase more or less all secretions; and even if we had no direct proof of their action on the liver, we might almost have affirmed that they especially increased the secretion of bile, from the obvious way in which bilious symptoms yield to their action.

The other fundamental pathological type described by De Giovanni is the hypersthenic (second morphological combination), corresponding in part to the sanguine temperament of Greek medicine, and in part to the bilious temperament.

He raised his eyes and met the stare of a bilious clock.

I find him accord with my digestion and my bilious system.

Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I had made a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in the shop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favour of a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me threepence.

Much of the power of his bilious attacks comes from a righteous Christian sense of sin.

A sampling of other targets: Kathryn Harrison ("I can think of no other writer I'd rather unilaterally disarm," fumes Adam Mazmanian), Gore Vidal ("the consummate pseudo-intellectual who disguises his bilious prejudices as profound insight," writes David Greenberg), and the entire Michel Foucault canon ("or should I say oeuvre ?

at turns bilious and cold, corny and cynical, manic and flat" (the Wall Street Journal ) and declared (as do many reviewers) that the book represents a tremendous lost opportunity, as Morris had 14 years of unlimited access to both Reagan and his papers.

But it took the deeper wisdom of adults to use this notion as a way of ending the bilious debate over affirmative action.

In such cases, children, in their sports, or persons who labor, are thrown into perspiration, by exercise, the door is thrown open, a chill ensues, and fever, bowel complaints, or bilious attacks,[Pg 261] are the result.

The old term bilious temperament might possibly be retained [pg 173]in deference to long usage, did it not inculcate a radical error.

Therefore, to apply the term bilious to this temperament is not only unreasonable, but it is calculated to mislead.

Persons of a lymphatic or bilious temperament often find that coffee disagrees with them, aggravating their troubles and causing biliousness, constipation, and headache, while tea proves agreeable and beneficial.

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