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Let your enemas be composed of salts and opium,
or oil and turpentine.   Fomentations of hops in hot
vinegar, should be applied to the abdomen.
The Dioscore(a Villora, (mild yam,) has been success-
fully used in bilious colic, in doses of half a pint at a
time.
PAINTERS' COLIC.
This species of colic especially, in regard to the se-
verity of symptoms, differs materially from  the other
varieties.
KSin)tlos.-Violent pain at the pit of the stomach, a
hard and quick pulse, excessive thirst, violent constipa-
tion, frequent desire to stool, without being able to
evacuate anything; a frequent vomiting, the muscles of
the abdomen seem   to contract into knots.  Painters'
colic exhibits an example of slow poisoning, it is pro-
duced in lead mines and lead works, and painters and
glaziers are particularly liable to it, by inhalation, and
not unfrequently by drinking water impregnated with
lead. The metal being introduced into the system in a
soluble form, makes its way elsewhere among the tis-
sues, and lays the foundation of chronic and frequently
returning pains.
-catment. - Diluted sulphuric acid or sulphuretted
waters, render lead insoluble in water, whether in the
body or out of it, and they have therefore been pre-
scribed as the standard remedies for painters' colic.
Observation, however, has shown these remedies, though
they assuage or remove the symptoms of the disease,
still leave the lead, (which caused it) diffused in an
inert state through the body, ready, when favorable
conditions arise, again to act injuriously on bodily

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COLIC.