128 COLICS AND THEIR TREATMENT 



Intestinal Flatulence 



Enterocentesis should be resorted to in this ailment if 

 danger is imminent. The indications call for the quick 

 purgatives (eserine or arecoline) and the following: 



5 — Ol. Menthse piperitse 3ij 



Ol. Terebinthinae. 



^theris. 



Spts. Ammon. Arom. 



Tr. Zingiberis aa §ij 



Ac. Salicylici 3vj 



M.* 

 Sig. Give one-half at a dose in a pint of water, re- 

 peat in three-quarters of an hour if necessary. 

 Avoid anodynes. 



This form of colic is frequently followed by impaction 

 due to the exhaustion of the muscular coats of the 

 bowels, resulting from the stretching they have been sub- 

 jected to during the flatulence. Eserine sulphate is 

 doubly valuable in this instance, to eliminate the fer- 

 menting material and to stimulate secretion and peris- 

 talsis and the exhausted muscular coats through their 

 nerves thus warding off impaction. 



Making it an almost invariable rule to use eserine, or 

 possibly arecoline, in these cases will well repay the 

 practitioner by saving him the worry and danger inci- 

 dental to impaction of the bowels. 



Naphthalin is a useful intestinal antiseptic and anti- 

 ferment in two to three-dram doses. Autointoxication 



•Note: Dissolve the salicylic acid in the tincture of ginger to 

 prevent a too violent chemical reaction between it and the aro- 

 matic spirits of ammonia. 



