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any means to be put in competition with the 

 efficacious stimulants before recommended. 



When the fit is gone off, should the subject 

 be left in a kind of stupor, or nervous debi- 

 litation, with spasms or twitchings in the 

 stomach and bowels that occasion great pain, 

 it will be readily perceived, and more parti- 

 cularly ascertained by his frequent looking 

 back to one side or the other, with his nose 

 towards the seat of pain, and his uneasy 

 shifting from place to place. In such case, 

 anodynes will afford the greatest certainty 

 of relief ; therefore give either the following 

 hall or drink so soon as convenient : 



Take galbanum, assafostida, and storax pill, each half 

 an ounce ; 

 Sjrup of diacordium sufficient to make the ball. 



Or, 



Take of valerian root one ounce and a half, snal;? root 

 half an ounce ; let both be bruised to a gross pow- 

 der, and infuse in boiling water a pint and a quar- 

 ter, with saffron two drachms; when sufficiently 

 cool, strain off, and add tincture of assafoetida one 

 ounce, liquid laudanum two drachms, giving the 

 whole a little warm. * 



If the spasms or twitchings are frequent- 



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