_ RECIPRE. 117 
= HYSTERIC COLIC. 
Hysteric Colic is attended with a violent pain at the pit of 
the stomach, with sinking of spirits and vomiting, nervous, 
obstinate costiveness, belly-ache, and little urine. Eat new- 
churned buttermilk. and white bread ; or boil three 
ounces of sorrel in one pint of whey, and drink a wine-glass- 
ful twice a day, fasting ; or take a spoonful of fox glove tea 
morning and evening ; or take one pint of skim-milk, one- 
half pint small beer, and add twenty ivy leaves and two or 
three sprigs of hyssop, boil well together, and take one-half 
at night and the rest in the morning. Continue taking 
this for two months has cured. in’ a desperate case, Or 
every morning cut up turf of fresh earth, and lay down and 
breathe in the hole fifteen minutes; I have known cures 
effected in this way. Or take a cow’s heel from the butcher’s, 
ready dressed, two quarts of new milk, and two ounces of 
hartshorn or deer’s-horn shavings, two ounces of isinglass, 
one-fourth pound sugar candy, one ounce of root ginger, put 
all in a pot together and set it in a half-heated oven, let it stand 
till cold, and let the patient live on this. — Or throw 
Frankincense on hot coals or iron, and receive the smoke 
daily through a proper tube to the lungs. © 
FOR HYSTERIC COLIC. 
Bathe in cold: water for one month; or in the fit, drink one- 
half pint of cold water with one spoonful of flour and one of 
vinegar; or drink warm lemonade; or a wine-glassful 
of vinegar; or take thirty or forty drops of balsam Peru in 
sugar, twice a day ; or give an injection of three ounces of 
burdock seed, boiled in water ; or twenty drops of Jandanum 
in any proper injection. et 
