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before my visit, ou the succeeding day, ten or twelve doses 

 of cacli have been given, and retained in the stomach. The 

 general cfiect is many motions, but on inspection not more 

 than one or two copious. The relief from pain is often con- 

 siderable, the Convulsions have ceased and the infant re- 

 sumed its former habit of sucking. I then direct the powder 

 and oil to be repeated every third or fourth hour, more or 

 less frequently, according to tlie degree of ease the infant 

 appears to have obtained, and the freedom of its discharges. 



On my third visit the bowels have generally discharged 

 a prodigious quantity of green, and apparently acrid bile, 

 and hence I have denominated the Cholic bilious. In the 

 course of recovery, the quantity of evacuation seldom fails 

 to astonish the attendants, who cannot well comprehend 

 whence it can all l)e derived. The relief obtained is uni- 

 formly proportioned to the quantity discharged. 



After the third day a Calomel Powder is given, perhaps 

 night and morning, until the fourth or fiftii, and Castor Oil 

 now and then, when the infant is uneasy. Where the fre- 

 quent repetition of Oil nauseates the stomach, or where it 

 produces, at the end of twenty-four hours, very little etiect, 

 I substitute a desert spoonful of infusion of Senna sweetened^ 

 and warmed with lifteen or twenty drops of Tincture of 

 Jalap. 



I have lately kept up the purging plan somewhat longer 

 than heretofore, from having seen an infant of six weeks old 

 relapse into convulsions after continuing two days appa- 

 rently 



