S70 APP. — CLYSTER FOR CONVULSIONS. 



clyster may be forced up the rectum once or twice 

 a day, until the flux abates. 



(RECIPE, No. 197.) 



Clyster for Convulsions. 



Take — Linseed, and valerian root, of each four ounces; 

 Boil them in three quarts of water to four pints; 



add 

 Epsom salts, four ounces ; 

 Assafoetida, half an ounce; 

 Opium, two drachms : 

 Dissolve the whole in the above while hot, and 



apply it new-milk-warm. 



This is a most powerful clyster in all disorders 

 of the intestines, that are attended with pain and 

 convulsions, or spasms, in those parts, such as a 

 violent attack of the colic, proceeding from an ob- 

 struction in the urinary passage. 



