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of wood, letting it then run as long as they think 
proper, or until the patient’s pain is mitigated. 
They cut the holes in fuch a manner as not to 
touch any vein, but only in the Ikin or fiefhy 
part, fo far refembling a icarification. 
6. Colicae Medicina. A Cure for the Cholic. 
Take the fnuff of a candle, and German foap y 
mix them well, and make pills. This in the 
Levant is found to be a fure remedy againft the 
Cholic. 
Make pills of pitch (bitumen vulgare) of the 
fize of a pea, of which, three or four are to be 
taken, when the fit or paroxyfm comes on. This 
is laid to be a fovereign remedy againft the wind 
Cholic in Tartary, which I learned from a 
Man in Smyrna, who had long lived amongft 
the Tartars. 
Colica jlalulenta. Gravidarum Pejfus. 
Take of powdered nutmeg, two grains; fweet 
oil, what quantity you pleafe. 
Make a tent of cotten, moiften it with the a- 
bove mixture, and apply it. The patient muft 
fit in warm water, almoft up to her middle, for 
an hour, before the Peffus is applied. I faw a 
midwife at Cairo, with this remedy, cure a wo- 
man fix months gone with child, of a Colica 
flatulenta, which the patient had erronfcoufly taken 
for a fign of future or inftant abortion ; but the 
midwife prudently judged it to be the aforefaid 
diftemper. 
The women in Egypt frequently ufe Pefiaria ; 
but in Europe they are fcarcely ever ufed, tho’ I 
X 4 doubt 
