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depression will be complained of, but if vomiting comes on 

 within an hour, and the powder is ejected, the same routine 

 of treatment must be adopted in about three hours after- 

 wards. This may be required to be repeated three or four 

 times during the course of two or three days, but it ought 

 not to be pushed further without medical advice. If it fails 

 (which it very seldom does), twenty drops of laudanum in 

 one wineglassful of water or thin arrow-root may be injected 

 into the bowel, and repeated twice in twenty-four hours ; 

 poultices of bran or linseed meal should be kept constantly 

 applied over the abdomen. 



Diet. Milk, chicken or mutton broths, sago, corn-flour, or 

 rolong. 



Chronic Dysentery. Give ten grains of Dover's powder 

 two or three times a day, or give as frequently the third of a 

 teaspoonful of castor oil, and ten drops of laudanum beat up 

 with a small quantity of powdered gum arabic and warm 

 water, or the following 



Dysentery Pills. Take of quinine twelve grains, opium 

 six grains, ipecacuanha powder four grains, extract of bael 

 fruit, twenty grains ; mix and divide into twelve pills. Dose, 

 one three times a day. Decoction of the dried peal of the 

 pomegranate or the bael fruit are sometimes most beneficial 

 in chronic dysentery. 



HEAT APOPLEXY. 



Causes. Exposure to a high temperature by night or by 

 day. 



Symptoms. Giddiness, intense headache, with feeling of 

 weight, tightness, and heat at back of head, hot burning 

 skin, face flushed, thirst intense, breathing laboured, oppressed 

 and sighing, followed sometimes by violent convulsions, 

 ending in stupor. 



Treatment. Place the patient in a recumbent position in 

 a cool place, with his head and shoulders raised ; pour cold 

 water, iced if possible, steadily and perseveringly in a small 

 stream from a height on the head, face, and chest, so long as 



