ON 



BIILIOUS CHOILIC 



AND 



CONVULSIONS IN EARLY INFANCY. 



BY 



JOSEPH CLARKE, M. p. 



HONORAny FELLOW ©F THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, DCBLIX, 



AND M. R. L A. 



Ifead on May, \st. ISG'J. 



1 HE frequency and fatal tendency of Cholic and Convul- 

 sions, during the first three or four months of infancy, have 

 long made them objects of my most serious attention. 



After many years deliberation I have been led step by 

 ^ep, and not without many apprehension^, to adopt a prac- 

 tice in these diseases not generally recommended by writers, 

 and which appears to me to have saved many lives. What 

 I have to propose differs so widely from the treatment hereto- 

 fore pursued, that I doubt whether I should have had courage 

 to submit my observations to public notice, had not the 

 admirable work of Doctor James Hamilton, on the utility 



R 2 and 



