Insatiable  appetite  (canine  appetite,  TO-
eaoitt  ;  BnLiM'iA,  L.)  is  generally  symp-
tomatic of  pi'egnancy,  or  worms,  or  diseases  of
the  stomach  or  the  viscera  immediately  con-
nected with  it;  but  sometimes  exists  as  u
separate  disease,  and  is  even  said  to  be  occa-
sionally hereditary.  When  it  occurs  in  child-
hood, worms  may  be  suspected,  and  vermit'ufjes
administered.  In  adults,  a  common  cause  is
imperfect  digestion,  arising  from  stomach  com-
plaints or  gluttony,  when  the  languor  ami
gnawing  pains  of  disease  are  mistaken  f -r
hunger.  In  this  case  the  diet  should  be  regu-
lated and  the  bowels  kept  gently  relaxed  with
mild  aperients,  and  tonics  (as  bark  and  steel),
or  bitters  (as  orange-peel  and  gentian),  may
be  administered.  VVhen  pregnancy  or  viciou-
habits  are  the  cause,  the  treatment  indioated
under  depbaved  appetite  may  be  adopted.
When  the  affection  is  occasioned  by  acidity  in
the  stomach,  an  emetic,  followed  by  the  mode-
rate use  of  absorbents  or  antacids,  will  gene-
rally effect  a  cure.  In  those  cases  depending
on  a  highly  increased  power  of  the  stomach  in
effecting  rapid  and  complete  digestion,  its
contractile  force  and  morbid  activity  may  be
often  allayed  by  the  copious  use  of  salad  oil,
fat  meat,  lic  ,hy  the  cautious  use  of  opiates,  or
by  the  use,  or  freer  use,  of  tobacco  (either
smoked  or  chewed,  or  both).  A  cathartic
daily,  with  a  dose  of  blue-pill,  or  mercurial
powder,  every  second  or  third  day,  is  also
often  advantageous.  25  or  30  drops  of  solution
of  potassa,  in  broth,  twice  or  thrice  d.aily,  has
also  been  recommended.  See  Bile,  Dyspepsia,
Woems,  &c.
APP'LE  (ap'l).  %».  Ma'lttm,  Po'itrir,  L. ;.
