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MR. LAGUKRRIERE. 
prominence of its claims to the consideration of the practitioner. 
In the army especially, now that morvo-farcinous affections have, 
for the most part disappeared, it is to colics, principally to those 
of indigestion, with or without overloaded intestines, that the 
greatest amount of mortality is due. 
NOSOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE VARIOUS DISEASES PRO¬ 
DUCING COLICS. 
First Group. —Diseases due to irritation of the nervous intes¬ 
tinal system. Division —Nervous colics. Subdivision —Gastral- 
gia ; enteralgia; gastro-enteralgia. 
Second Group. — Affections due to functional changes of the 
digestive organs. Division , ( a ) flatulent, or gaseous colic ; ( b ) 
colic of simple indigestion ; (c) colic of indigestion with over¬ 
loading ; ( d) colic of indigestion complicated with nervous acci¬ 
dents. Subdivisions. — (a) Metcorization, tympanitis; (b and c) 
gastric; stomachic; gastro-stomachic; ( d ) vertiginous indiges¬ 
tion, or stomach staggers. 
Third Group. —Affections due to excess of vascularity, of a 
congestive nature—may be either essential or symptomatic. 
Division —Red colic; inflammatory colic. Subdivision —Intes¬ 
tinal congestion ; enterorrhagial. 
Fourth Group. —Affections due to presence of living organ¬ 
ized bodies; foreign bodies, or acting as such. Division —Vermi¬ 
form affections ; calculi; poisoning. 
Fifth Group. —Affections due to changes of form or situa¬ 
tion, or solutions of continuity. Division —Various displace¬ 
ments ; various hernias; volvulus; invagination; tearing or 
various wounds. 
Sixth Group. —Affections due to complications of colics 
already present—they constitute morbid epiphenomena of the 
most serious character and are too commonly fatal. Division — 
Congestion; enterrorhagia; inflammation; gangrene; volvulus; 
invagination ; hernia ; various displacements. 
Seventh Group. —Affections of abdominal organs other than 
the intestinal canal. Division —Peritoneal; hepatic: nephritic; 
cystic; ovarian and uterine colics. 
No classification can ever be perfect, and we present this one 
