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CONSTIPATED COLIC.
I have given croton oil in combination with hyosci-
amus or belladonna, in drop doses, and it answers well
in either combination to allay irritability and produce
evacuations.
In violent cases the treatment of this vaiiety is nearly
the same as in bilious colic. Your main reliance, to
effect a permanent cure, is on the iodide of potassium.
Letters on Constipatcd Colic, vulgarly called Patent-Dry-
Belly-Ache.
We have received from a friend the manuscript copies
of two letters upon this subject, from the pens of Dr. A.
Smith and Dr. Bowers. It is with pleasure that I insert
them in my work, together with the notice of the editor
of the New Orleans Medical Journal. I have never
met a case of the character, and am really thankful to
my friend for the MSS.
' The following communications have been kindly
transmitted to tile editor by Dr. Ashbell Smith, of Galves-
ton, Texas, describing a peculiar affection, vulgarly called
" patent-dry-belly-ache," but the physicians designate it
" constipated colic." One of these letters was addressed
to Dr. Smith by Dr. Bowers, of Brazos Santiago, in
answer to some inquiries of the former gentleman
addressed to the latter. Both these letters will be found
highly interesting, and we invite the attention of the
reader to the subject."
Galveston, Texas, March 10th, 1849.
MY DEAR DR. :-
In the summer of 1847, there prevailed iq Galveston,
an epidemic colic, which went by the common name of
patent-belly-ache; whence or why it took the epithet,
"patent," I cannot conjecture. It proved fatal to three
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/337/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.