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CLASS IX. 



CHOLIC, SCOURING, and MOLTEN 

 GREASE, 



C H O L I C. 



It has been a profeflional cuftom, time im« 

 memorial, to diftinguifih every diforder of the 

 ftomach and b wels 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 

 ftiil lefs to eftablifh a confif^ent method of 

 cure. This deficiency, it mufl 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 fubjedt to the ac- 

 curate 



