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most violent kind of either description of colic, that 

 is to say, when neither purging nor constipation 

 prevail extremely, let the following be given. 



No. 1. — Colic Drench. 



Epsom salts, 4 or 5 ounces, 

 Castile soap, sliced, 2 ounces. 



Dissolve these in a pint of warm ale, and add 



Oil of juniper, 2 drachms, 



Venice turpentine, 2 ounces. 

 Mix well together, and give it warm ; repeating the 

 same in four or five hours, and if the symptoms do 

 not visibly abate, repeat once more. Tincture of 

 opium is sometimes substituted for the turpentine 

 to the amount of 4 drachms ; but the drench is 

 thereby rendered exceedingly nauseous, and should 

 be given deliberately. Opium is, moreover, least 

 proper when a tendency to costiveness is discovered 

 to exist. 



No. 2. — Colic Drench. 



Tincture of opium, 2 drachms, 

 Oil of juniper, 2 drachms, 

 Spirit of nitrous ether, 1 ounce, 

 Tincture of benzoin, 4 drachms, 

 Aromatic spirit of ammonia, S drachms. 



Mix together, and preserve the same in a bottle, 

 and give in a pint of warm peppermint water. Re- 

 peat in three or four hours. 



When the case is not very alarming, a neater 



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