_Take essential oil of peppermint_ (U), _six drops on a lump of
sugar; elixir proprietatis_ (H), _five large tea spoonfuls; wine
or water, half a tea cupful._
Let the patient take this immediately; a little _Turlington’s balsam_
(W) about a tea spoonful, also is very beneficial. If the pain still
continues violent; let ten or twelve drops of _liquid laudanum_ (T), be
added. Clysters should not be neglected, but plentifully administered;
the same medicines as is given to the patient, may also be added to the
clyster.
The dry belly-ach, is a spasmodic contraction of the intestines, and
throws the patient into the greatest misery imaginable; clysters is the
only recourse and anodynes, together with gentle mercurials will
likewise prove beneficial; warm clothes and something that can retain
the warmth should constantly be put to the bowels; and in great
extremities, cold foot baths have often given immediate relief.
The bilious cholic is of a dangerous tendency, and always attended with
the bilious belching and vomiting of bile. In this case vomits is the
only method to be used with safety; and if properly continued, as long
as the bile is brought up, will never fail of success. But bleeding in
bilious complaints is ever pernicious. If a fever attends, method must
be used accordingly.
_Of Looseness, and the Bloody Flux._
A Cholic is often the forerunner of a looseness, and if the looseness is
not too violent very often is salutary, and carries off many kind of
disorders in the body. But if a looseness continues after twenty-four
hours, it is time something should be done, in order to prevent a bloody
flux.
If the flux is attended with a nausea at the stomach, and an inclination
to vomit, give without delay the following draught: