336 DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES. 



pouring boiling vinegar slowly uj»on mustard^ and stirring 

 them together to a proper consistence — can at all times be 

 rubbed on ; and I am not certain that it is not in the end 

 more serviceable than temporary heat. A terebinthinate 

 tincture of cantharides — made by steeping an ounce of 

 bruised cantharides in half-a-pint of spirits of turpentine, in 

 a stopper bottle, and kept ready for use — may be employed 

 instead of the mustard : it is calculated to relieve, not only 

 as a blister, but as an instantaneous counter-irritant. Some 

 dash boiling water upon the belly. The late Professor 

 Peall used to recommend that the surface be cauterized with 

 a broad flat firing-iron. Mr. Hales, of Oswestry, has a 

 warming-pan full of hot coals passed over the belly. Mr. 

 Atcherley used the actual cautery to the abdomen " in the 

 form of a large shovel, made red hot," in the last stage, 

 with success. Three or four hours after the first blood- 

 letting, should no change or abatement take place, a second 

 venesection, though not to the same depressing extent as 

 before, followed by the exhibition of another opiate drench, 

 (the aloes, after the first one, being omitted,) will probably be 

 called for; and a couple of hours after that, even a third 

 repetition of the opium : all this, however, must so entirely 

 depend upon circumstances, that no unalterable rules can 

 possibly be laid down. 



A DERNIER Remedy we still possess, should the case 

 prove protracted enough to admit of its trial. Several years 

 ago, from knowing the extensive and advantageous use 

 surgeons in their practice applied Calomel and Opium to, I 

 resolved to give it a trial in our own ; and I feel now some 

 pride and much satisfaction in being able to add, that the 

 experiment turned out of good account. The moment other 

 (foregoing) remedies seem to be wanting in any good effect, 

 I commenced employing Opium and Calomel, giving the 

 following ball every four hours : — 



R Hydrarg. Chlorid. 9ij ; 

 Pulv. Opii, 9j ; 

 Far . Avenac, 3iv ; 

 Terebinth. Vulgar, q. s. ut. f. Bol. 



