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h Part of a Letter to the Publi (her from Dr Davie s 
concerning an mujual Colic- 
Birmingham, Od. 3d. 1 701. 
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I Aft May, my Ingenious Friend Dx Shaw Tamworth^ 
was pieafed to defire my affiftance ia the following- 
cafe. A perfon, aged between 50 and 60, bad been for 
3 -or 4 years laft part troubled with Gripes, which geae - 
rally returnU once a month, or thereabouts 5 his Body 
for the moft part coftive, and therefore was forced to 
fpur Nature with D^^*s Elixir or Aloes 5 fometimes the 
fmoaking a Pipe of Tobacco, fnpply'd the ufe of rhefe 
Medicines." Laft ^pr/7coming from London beared him- 
felf very much with his Journey, having walked a good 
part of the way, and as foon as he came home, had a 
return of his Colic pains,wbich continued upon him for 
18 days, notwithftanding the methods commonly ufed 
in that cafe, during which time he had no Srool^ be^ 
fides what the firft and fecond Clyfters brought away 5 
his complaint upon his feizure was of a pain in his righe 
fide in the Regio Iliaca* Some time before he dyed his 
Belly fwelled much, and was as tenfe as any Drum, he 
vomited for 2 or 3 days at the beginning , which 
left him, and returned not till juft before he dyed, 
which was at the expiration of the i8th day , at 
which tira:e he brought up 2 or 3 mouthfuls of black 
Choler^ but never during his whole illnefs vomited any 
excrement, Dr 5)^^»? who lived upon the fpot, prevail'd 
to have an hafty Infpdftion of his Abdomen, the Relati- 
ons (itbeing atfiingM^/^ in that Neighbourhood) 
defired it might be done with all fecrecy and expedition, 
which 
