142 THE COMMON COLICS OF THE HOUSE 



be, I hope I have now written enough to lead other 

 observers to the more exact differentiation and diagnosis 

 of these troublesome disorders. I also hope that the 

 foregoing descriptions will have justified me in daring to 

 thus arbitrarily subdivide and suggest new names for the 

 time-honoured (yet, I venture to afhrm, out-of-date) title 

 ' Impaction of the Bowels.' 



