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all bad cases of the kind ; but I never fail to inculcate, that 

 these are temporizing measures, intended merely to alleviate 

 pain, and gain time for the operation of physic, which alone 

 deserves our confidence. The cow-pock in this case observed 

 a slow, but regular course. 



Sj'mpathy for the afflicted, has, on more occasions than 

 one, induced me to consent to a trial of Dalby's carminative, 

 which is a warm opiate, and a favourite medicine with many, 

 in all bowel complaints. Both from theory and practice, I 

 am convinced, it is a bad remedy in such cases. After very 

 profuse evacuations from the bowels, it will sometimes pro- 

 duce comfortable effects, by allayiilg tenesmus, expelling 

 <£atulence, &c. &c. 



BiUous Cholic appears to me to be more prevalent in the 



Summer months, and during one season than another. 1 



certainly met more bad cases in the Summer of 1804, than 



■ ever occurred to me in one year, and 1 was so fortunate as 



not to lose one. 



I consider the disease dangerous in proportion to the torpor 

 of the bowels, and consequent difficulty of forcing a passage 

 through them. My anxiety and exertions uniformly increase 

 as this difficulty appears greater, and it affords me sincere 

 satisfaction to be able to state, that a great majority of such 

 cases terminate favourably. 



In the last case of convulsions which occurred, the infant 

 was twelve days old. It had been uneasy from its birth, and 

 had taken Castor Oil frequently. It awoke from sleep in 



violent 



