re to be given out of the fit. All that can be done in thi , to 
Jet him smell volatiles, and rab his temples with warm brandy or vin= 
egar. : aR SE. 3 - t. iss pepe aif $i “ 
In fainting fits that proceed from fear, grief, or other violent pas+ 
sions or affections of the mind, the patient must be very cautiously — 
managed. He should be suffered to remain at rest, and only’made 
to smell some Vinegar. After he is come to himself, he may drink 
freely of warm lemonade, or balm, or mint tea, > It will likewise be 
proper, if the fainting fit have been long and seyere, to cleanse the 
wels by throwing in an emollient clyster:' «*°) = “2% 
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FLATULENCY, OR WIND. 
_ Fraruienctes, are, of all disorders, the most common, and have, _ 
perhaps, the least attention paid to them, notwithstanding that few _ 
persons are free from some disagreeable circumstances owing to 1 
All_nervous patients, without exception, are afflictec 
their stomach and bowels, which arise from ‘the w: 
vigor in these organs. Crude flatulent alimen 
cabbages, and the like, may increase this com 
healthy people are seldom troubled with win 
their stomachs, or drink liquors in a fermentii 
ly full of elastic air. While therefore the wind et 
ments, the canse which makes air separate from them in such qui 
tity as to occasion complaints, is almost always a fault of the bowe 
themselves, which are too weak, either to prevent the production of © 
elastic air, or to expel it after it is produced. — 
To relieve this complaint, such medicines ought to be 
have a tendency to expel wind, and by strengthening the ali 
canal, to prevent its being produced there. tee 5% 
used as 
_ Symproms.—Breaking wind, upwar 
|in the stomach, rumbling in) 
burn, sour breath, ation the 
, Swelling at the pit of the stomach, swelling of th on 
t ‘side, difficulty of breathing, head-ach, sensation of fulness 
after eating, hatsea, obstructed bile, costiveness, passing 6f worms or _ 
slime, spasms of the urinary vessels, obstruction of the mensés, and 
bilious and gravelly cot 
Tue Cure —The predominant acid in the stomach is’ 
rected and destroyed by emetics and alkalies; the wind i 
pelled by proper carminatives, nervines, &¢.; the bowels t 
y clysters, and laxatives; and the stomach and b 
. . 
y bitters, tonics, &c. ilk diet. mori 
