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The common pradtice of taking fpiritu- 

 Qus liquors, or the warm carminatives, when 

 people feel colic-pains, is often unlucky, 

 and public warning (hould be given againft 

 it J for tho' relief is found from fuch 

 things in the windy or fpafmodic colics, 

 which is not a deadly difeafe, yet they hurry 

 on the inflammatory ones fo faft, that they 

 foon prove mortal. I muft likeways think, 

 that writers on the inflammation of the in-, 

 teftines don't reprefent flrorigly enough the 

 languor and low fmall pulfe which fuch pa- 

 tients generally have more than in mofl 

 other difeafes. It is fuch, that I have feen 

 feveral cafes, where people of flcill, decei- 

 ved by thefe fymptoms, have been afraid to 

 order blood-letting, left the patient had not 

 flrength to bear it, and thereby negleded 

 this evacuation till it was too late. When 

 there is a fixed pain in the ftomach or in- 

 teftines, with a quick tho' fmall pulfe, no 

 time is to be loft -, blood ought immediately 

 to be let plentifully, and venefedion ftiould 

 be repeated till the pulfe becomes full and 

 free, which is a hopeful fign of a cure's be- 

 ing made, tho' neither pain nor fever have 



yet ceafed. 



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