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jefs frequent, were mixed with blood and 
mucus. ‘Then the gripes feized him in 
good earneft, fometimes fixed and tortu- 
“ting like a ftitch in the baftard ribs, at 
other times wandering with bo borygmi, 
now as it were twifting his guts, then 
cutting him in two, as he expreffed it, and 
bending him forward. They were always 
moft fevere before ftool, eafier in the time | 
of evacuation, but eaffeft after. With 
thefe fymptoms were complicated a dy- 
fury and piles, greatly inflxmed but bleed- 
ing none. Thefe difmal complaints con. 
tinued almoft equally violent for three 
months, altho’ V, S. emetics, vitr. antimon, 
cerat. mild antiphlogiftic purzatives, opi- 
ates, lubricating and aftringent re- 
medies were ufed, as the fymptoms indi- 
cated. Opiates, tho’ they eafed him, fel- 
dom procured undifturbed repofe, and al- 
ways affected his head ; this confequence 
of Jaud. was more effectually prevented 
_ by bal/. locatel. than any thing elfe. Vo- 
mits always relieved him; but increafed 
_ the pain of the hxmorrhoids. Aftrin« 
gents, though they bound him up for a 
iri i little 
