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potassse may be added to every dose of ether given by 

 the mouth ; which, when there is no colic, should be once 

 in three hours, and the pills directed below may be ex- 

 hibited at the same time : 



Prepared chalk . . . Five grains to one scruple. 



Powdered ginger . . . Three to ten grains. 



Powdered carraways . Three to ten grains. 



Powdered capsicums . . One to four grains. 



Confection of roses . . A sufficiency. 



To the foregoing, from two to eight grains of powdered 

 catechu may be added should it seem to be required, but 

 it is not generally needed. Opium more than has been 

 recommended, in this stage, is not usually beneficial ; and, 

 save in conjunction with ether, which appears to deprive 

 it of its injurious property, I am not in the habit of 

 employing it. 



I have been more full in my directions for diarrhoea 

 than was perhaps required by the majority of cases. 

 Under the administration of the ether only I am, there- 

 fore, never in a hurry to resort even to the liquor potassae, 

 which, however, I use some time before I employ the 

 astringent pills, and during the whole period I persevere 

 with the tonic. The diet I restrict to strong beef tea, 

 thickened with ground rice, and nothing of a solid nature 

 is allowed. Should these measures not arrest the purga- 

 tion, but the faeces become offensive, chloride of zinc is 

 introduced into the injection, and also into the ether given 

 by the mouth. With the first, from a teaspoonful to a 



