of an impending Iliac passion. SO a 
First, it is generally proper to give a vomit, as Jobelia; to 
the stomach, and afterwards, if it will stay down, a smart purge, toge- 
ther with clysters of yeast, tinctured with lobelia,\or°tobaeco; or 
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injections of tobacco smoke; or, if it can be procured, new small — 
beer, while it is foaming, should be plentifully injected, and also drank. 
These means’ shou ‘be persevered in till a downward p: 
procured, and irritability and vomiting allayed. 
In this colic al] evacuations, as bleeding, vomiting and purging, do 
hurt. Every thing that weakens, or sinks the spirits, is to be avoid- © 
ed. If, however, the vomiting should prove violent, warm water may 
be drank to cleanse the stomach. After the fit, give carminatives, 
as in flatulent colic, joined with anti-spasmodics, as valerian, lady 
slipper, castor, &c. : Cot eae 
After the stomach is cleansed with warm water, fifteen, twenty, | 
twenty-five drops of laudanum, in a little cinnamon or peppermint- 
Water should be given. Pennyroyal tea is a very suitable drink. — 
~The nervous colic prevails among miners, smelters of lead, ma- 
white lead, &c. ‘“ Painters’ colic,” is of the'same cha- — 
No disease of the bowels is attended with more excruciating 
pain than th ; Nor isit soon‘at’an end. It often continues eight or 
ten days with very little intermission, the body all the whilé éontinu- 
ing bound in spite of medicine, yet at length yield, and the patient - 
Jeaves the patient weak, and often’ 
recover. It generally, however, 
ends in a palsy. 
: ae treatment of this disease is 80 nearly the same 
iliac passion, that it is not necessary to repeat it: 
is to be kept opened by mild purgatives in smal 
