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eorae almost continual, and the proper motion of the intestines inso far perverted, that there are all the symptoms of an impendingiliac passion.

If the patient be young and strong, and the pulse full and fre.quent, it will be proper to bleed, after which clysters may be ad.ministered. Clear whey or gruel, sharpened with the juice of lemonor cream of tartar, must be drank freely. Small chicken broth,with a little manna dissolved in it, or a slight decoction of tama-rinds, are likewise very proper, or any other thin, acid, openingliquor.

Besides bleeding and plentiful dilution, it will be necessary tofoment the belly with cloths dipped in warm water; and if thi*should not succeed, the patient must be immersed up to the breastin warm water.

In the bilious colic, the vumitiug is often very difficult to re-strain. When this happens, the patient may drink a decoctionof toasted bread, or an infusion of garden-mint in boiling water.Should these not have the desired effect, the saline draught, witha few drops of laudanum in it, may be given, and repeated accord-ing to the urgency of the symptoms. A small quantity of Venicetreacle may be spread in form of a cataplasm, and applied to thepit of the stomach. Clysters, with a proper quantity of Venicetreacle or liquid laudanum in them, may likewise be frequently ad-ministered.

Such as are liable to frequent returns of the bilious colic shouldu,i; flesh sparingly, and live chiefly upon a light vegetable diet.They should likewise take frequently a dose of cream of tartarwith tamarinds, or any other cool acid purge.

The hysteric colic bears a great resemblance to the bilious. Itis attended with acute pains about the region of the stomach, vo-miting, &c. What the patient vomits in this case is commonly ofa greenish colour. There is a great sinking of the spirits, withdejection of mind and difficulty of breathing, which are the characteristic symptoms of this disorder. Sometimes it is accompanied with the jaundice, but this generally goes off of its own accord in a few days.

In this colic all evacuations, as bleeding, purging, vomiting,&c. do hurt. Every thing that weakens the patient, or sinks thespirits, is to be avoided. If however the vomiting should proveviolent, lukewarm water, or small posset, may be drank to cleansethe stomach. Afterwards the patient may take fifteen, twenty, ortwenty-five drops of tincture of opium (liquid laudanum) in a glassof cinnamon water. This may be repeated every ten or twelvehours till the symptoms abate.'

The patient may likewise take four or five of the foetid pills everysix hours, and drink a cup of pennyroyal tea after them. If asafoe-tida should prove disagreeable, which is sometimes the case, a tea-spoonful of the tincture of castor in a cup of pennyroyal tea, orthirty or forty drops of the balsam of Peru dropped upon a bit of

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