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15. Mild Drench for \Yorms— 



Linseed Oil 1 pint. 



Spirit of Tui'iieutine 2 ounces. 



Mix, and give once a week, fosting. 



ANTISPASMODICS 



Antispasmodics are medicines which are intended to counteract excessive 

 muscular action, called spasm, or, in the limbs, cramp. This deranged con- 

 dition depends upon a variety of causes, which are genei-ally of an irritating 

 nature ; and its successful treatment will often depend upon the employment 

 of remedies calculated to remove the cause, rather than directly to relieve 

 the effect. It therefore follows that, in many cases, the medicines most 

 successful in removing spasm will be derived from widely separated divisions 

 of the materia medica, such as aperients, anodynes, alteratives, stimulants, 

 and tonics. It is useless to attempt to give many formulae for their exhi- 

 bition ; but there are one or two medicines which exercise a peculiar control 

 over spasm, and I shall give them without attempting to analyze their mode 

 of operation. 



16. In Colic — 



Spirit of Turpentine 3^ ounces. 



Laudanum l| ounces. 



Sohition of Barbadoes Aloes 2 ounces. 



Give as a drench in thin gruel. 



17. Clyster in Colic — 



Extract of Belladonna J ounce. 



Glycerine 2 ounces. 



Solution of Aloes 1 ounce. 



Dissolve m three quarts of warm water. 



18. Antispasmodic Drench — 



Gin 4 to 6 ounces. 



Tinctiu-e of Capsicum 2 drachms. 



Laudanum 1 ounce. 



Warm AVater 1^ pints, 



Iilix', and give as a drench, wlicn there is no inflammation. 



19. 



Chloral h ounce. 



Chlorodyne 2 to 3 drachms. 



Strong Liquid Ammonia 40 drops. 



Ether 4 drachms. 



"Water 1 pint. 



This may be repeated in two hours if no relief is obtained. 



APERIENTS 



Aperients, or purges, are those medicines which quicken or increase 

 the evacuations from the bowels, varying, however, a good deal in their 

 mode of operation. Some act merely by exciting the muscular coat of 

 the bowels to contract ; others cause an immense watery discharge, which, 

 as it were, washes out the bowels ; whilst a third set combine the action 

 of the two. The various purges also act upon different parts of the canal, 

 some stimulating the small intestines, whilst others pass through them 



