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under the abdomen, rubbing it well in. This often 

 starts an immediate action . of the 

 bowels. If not relieved in an hour 

 and a half, give another bottle of 

 the MAGIC MIXTURE, and apply the 

 EMBROCATION as before. If at the end 

 of another hour the gases are not 

 freely escaping from the rectum, the 

 operation of tapping should be per- 

 formed as follows : with a trochar, 

 seen in Figure 37, make a puncture 

 as seen in Figure 38, as deep as the 



Pig. 38 t Place to puncture in flatulent colir. 



