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CLASS IX. 



CHOLIC, SCOURING, AND MOLTED 



GREASE. 



CHOLIC. 



It has been a professional custom, timei^ 

 immemorial, to distinguish every disorder of 

 the stomach and bowels^ producing extreme 

 pain, by the denomination of gripes, or 

 THE fret; though httle has been produc- 

 ed by the best writers to explain the diffei> 

 cnt causes, and still less to establish a con- 

 sistent method of cure. This deficiency, it 

 must be acknowledged, has not arisen from 

 a want of prescriptions ; on the contrary, 

 they have been most liberally dispensed ; 

 but when the great variety of recipes tha^: 

 have been offered to public experiment, be- 

 come subject to the accurate inspection of 

 the enlightened practitioner;, they may per- 



