MEDICINAL TREATMENT OF "COLICS" 127 



Eserine, in one to one and one-half grain doses, is used 

 to empty the stomach and bowels. 



Spasmodic Colic 



The condition usually diagnosed as spasmodic colic 

 may be of a comparatively simple nature and yield to 

 very simple treatment, such as a three, four or five-grain 

 dose of morphine, or a dram or two of fluid extract of 

 belladonna or to some warming up medicament of a car- 

 minative nature as alcohol, whisky, tincture of ginger, 

 tincture of capsicum, oil of turpentine, spirits of cam- 

 phor or spirits of nitrous ether, etc., etc. ; but what seems 

 to be a simple spasmodic colic, is frequently the earlier 

 stage of some more serious condition, and even if it is 

 only spasmodic colic, it denotes the presence in the intes- 

 tinal tract of an irritant which should be expelled by the 

 use of a prompt cathartic (eserine is preferred by the 

 writer) and the administration of a carminitive or a mix- 

 ture similar to the one recommended as a type of stock, 

 colic mixtures on pages 119 or 128. 



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: 



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Ol. Terebinthinse. 



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Spts. Ammon. Arom. 



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