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Colic, Spasmodic. — Give one ounce tincture opium 

 and one ounce sulphuric ether in half a pint of water ; re- 

 peat in half an hour, if relief is not obtained. Or give the 

 following ; tincture of opium, 1 oz ; aromatic spirits of 

 ammonia, ^ oz.; extract of belladonna, 1 dr.; water, 1 

 pint ; mix. In flatulent colic, give chlorate of potash, -| oz.; 

 sulphuric ether, ^ oz.; tincture 'of aloes, 3 oz.; water, 1 

 pint ; mix and drench.' 



Worms. — Calomel, | dr.; tartrate of antimony, ^ dr.; 

 linseed meal, ^ oz.; mix and give at night ; or iron 

 filings, 2 drs.; common salt, ^ oz.; powdered savin, 1 dr.; 

 linseed meal, ^ oz.; mix ; give every night for a week ; or 

 assafoetida, 2 drs.; calomel, 1^ drs.; savin 1^ drs.; oil 

 male fern, 30 drops ; linseed meal, 2 drs.; mix with mo- 

 lasses and give at night ; or calomel, 1 dr.; powdered 

 wormwood, 1 oz,; honey sufficient to make the ball ; give 

 at night. Follow either of the above with the following 

 ball ; Barbadoes aloes, 1 oz.: pulverized gentian, 2 drs.; 

 pulverized ginger, 1 dr.; water sufficient to make the ball. 

 Another remedy. Barbadoes aloes, 6 drs.; male fern, 4 oz.; 

 spirits turpentine, 2 oz.; mix and divide into six balls ; 

 give one three times a day. 



Retention of Urine. — Give a ball every night of pow- 

 dered opium, ^ oz.; powdered kino, 1 oz.; prepared chalk, 1 

 oz., mixed with molassss and made into six balls. 



Stone in Bladder. — Muriatic acid, 2 drs., in a pail of 

 water once a day. 



Quitter — Flax-seed meal poultice till soft, then cut 

 away. Inject once a day, chloride of zinc, 2 drs., dis- 

 solved in one pint of water; or sulphate of zinc, Ih drs., dis- 

 solved in one pint of water ; nitrate of silver, 2 drs., in a 



