^o2 ON COLIC. 



times curing their patient as effeftually and tn- 

 flantaneoufly, as if, in the language of Bracken^ 

 they had " fired a piftol into his fundament." 

 Mr. Blaine feems to follow thel'e hardy pre- 

 fcribers pajfibus equis. With half an ounce of 

 aether, and half an ounce of tinfture of opium, 

 he has ordered three ounces of the fpirit of tur- 

 pentine, an article, from a liberal dofe of which, 

 many a poor horfe has happily received the 

 coup de grace. To ufe the actual cautery in 

 colic, would be needleisly to add to the tortures 

 of a wretched animal, whole feelings ought to 

 be refpefted, when it becomes but too plain we 

 can afford him no farther afliflance. From late 

 medical writers who have vifited Arabia, Mr. 

 Blaine may learn, that the cautery is generally 

 ufelefs in this cafe, and many others, in which, 

 neverthelefs, by the cuilom of that country, it 

 is as generally applied, leaving very unfightly 

 efchars in various parts of the patient's body. 

 The actual cautery,fcarifications of the occiput, 

 and blifterinc^ the lower extremities with cloths 

 dipped in boiling w-ater, alfo are very old re- 

 medies in apoplexy. 



EaRSTENNESS OR RUPTURE'. 



Ruptures proceed from drains in labour, high 

 and difficult leaps, particularly with heavy 

 weights, kicks ; from being Raked, or gored by 



oxen. 



