( 3?8 ) 



CLASS IX. 



CHOLIC, SCOURING, anu MOLTEN 

 GREASE. 



C H O L I C. 



It has been a profeffional cuflom, time im- 

 memorial, to diftinguifh every diforder of the 

 fhomach and bowels producing extreme pain, 

 by the denomination of gripes, or the 

 FRET ; though little has been produced by the 

 beft writers to explain the different caufes, and 

 ftill lefs to eftablifh a conliftent method of 

 cure. This deficiency, it muft be acknow- 

 ledged, has not arifen from a want of pre- 

 fcriptions^ on the contrary, they have been 

 moft liberally difpenfed ; but when the great 

 variety of recipes that have been offered to 

 public experiment become fubjefl: to the ac- 

 curate 



