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I know, and the fmallcr the quantity of fluid fw al- 

 lowed with it, provided it be fufficient to difguife 

 the tafte, the more proper. 



Opium is likewife proper in the fimple diarrhoea 

 or purging, that often comes on towards the clofe 

 of fummer. This, though fometimes falutary when 

 moderate, often continues fo long as to exhauft the 

 ftrength and weaken the tone of the ftomach and 

 bowels. In fuch cafes it is often neceflary to com- 

 bine the opiate with fome cordial aftringent, among 

 which I think cinnamon the bed.. If an ounce of 

 cinnamon in powder be made into an electuary with 

 any fyrup, and the bulk of a fmall nutmeg taken 

 three times a day with four, five, or fix drops of 

 tincture of opium added to each dofe, it forms a 

 powerful and fafe remedy in autumnal fluxes. 



Opiates, judicioufly adminiftered, might often 

 prevent many of the bad confequences that follow 

 violent colics, the iliac pafiion, and inflammation 

 of the bowels. If a fufficient dofe of tincture of 

 opium, ao or 30 drops for example, or, what might 

 perhaps be more proper, a grain of unftrained 

 opium in a pill, were to be given as foon as the pain 

 becomes violent, and before any vomiting has come 

 on, it might allay the pain, and make way for the 

 operation of clyfters; and would be preferable, in 



my 



