ae BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
--Colics are variously named, according to their causes, as the 
- flatulent, or wind colic, the bilious, the hysteric, and the nervous, 
“&c.; (some of which, particularly the flatulent, have of late years — 
been transformed by new fashions in physic, into an entire new 
disease, viz: “ Liver complaint.’”’) As each of these requires a par- 
ticular method of treatment, we shall point out their most general 
- symptoms with the means to be used for their relief. jeTtin 
The flatulent, or wind colic, is generally occasioned by the use of 
' unripe fruits, indigestible and windy food, fermenting liquors, and 
such like. -Delicate people, whose digestive powers are weak and 
the action of their bowels destroyed by harsh mineral medicines, are 
most liable to this kind of colic 5 Es 
The wind colic may either affect the stomach or intestines. — Itis 
_ attended with a painful stretching of the affected part, as though ‘it 
_were bound up. ‘fhe patient feels a rumbling in the bowels, gulps up 
‘wind; the pain is sometimies moveable, shooting from side to side, 
_ orinto various parts of the chest and abdomen, often catehing the 
_ patient so suddenly and severely as nearly to stop his breath. 
_ © Ifthere is reason to believe the stomach is clogged, an emetic, or 
_ ‘purge should first be administered. If the bowels are closed, give clys- 
- ters. If the pain is great in any particular part, apply the “ anodyne 
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: wash.” Put hot bricks, or other warm applications to the soles of 
of the feet. 
- In all cases of flatulency, give carminatives and such medicines as 
relax the system and open the pores: asa combination ofpleurisy root, 
angelica and calamus, infused in spirits, and as much taken as can 
be drank ; or which is an almost certain relief for wind, the pleurisy — 
_ Foot alone, in powder, a tea spoonful every twenty minutes till relief — 
is obtained. Any warm carminatives or ‘crocs! as mints, parti= 
_cularly peppermint, caraway, cloves, pepper, zanthoxylum, lobelia; 
&e: In addition to these, to relax the system and give ease, particu- 
larly in severe cases, give diluting and sweating drinks, with four oF 
five doses of the fever powders, one’every fifteen minutes in tea, till | 
sufficient are taken. I have often found these to give immediate re- 
lief from the most excruciating agonies.. : pom ee 
__. When the pain is removed, and the pores gently opened, and the 
bowels free, the cure of the colic is effected. But the debility of the — 
stomach, which generally is the cause of the colic, should afterwares — 
remedied by such medicines as strengthen and invigorate the 
d whole system. Persons who are liable to attacks of this 
uld be particularly cantious against taking indigestible food 
t stomachs, or overloading them. ‘Goose flesh, boiled egg: 
nuts, &c., or-whatever they found to be heavy upom their stom 
must be avoided. 1o'¢ SIGE aio Bae 
A glass of good peppermint water or brandy, will often relieve te 
wind colic. 
