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CONSTIPATED COLIC.
subsided, and the patient became convalescent, on
obtaining free, copious, feecal and bilious discharges. I
still entertain doubt whether such discharges are to be
regarded as the cause, or an effect of the solution of the
disease. Sometimes the disease subsided so suddenly
and completely, that I suspected an intus-susception
suddenly restored; if there existed intus-susception, it
was without strangulation.
The most successful treatment here, according to my
observation, consisted in free cupping over the abdomen,
general bleeding, calomel and opium, succeeded by cas-
tor oil, and oil of turpentine and warm bath.
For a much better account of the symptomatology
and details of treatment of this disease, I beg to refer to
the accompanying letter of the judicious Dr. Bowers, of
Brazos Santiago.
As to the causes of this disease, I am quite in the
dark. It appears to me to be obviously allied to the
colics which have prevailed at various times in different
parts of the world, and received names either from their
localities or from their supposed causes; still the "' patent
belly-ache," or "constipated colic" of the coast of Texas,
has relations to another disease of importance prevailing
occasionally in this region, to which relations I shall
draw your notice briefly before closing this letter. To
return to the causes: Dr. John Taylor, a skilful practi-
tioner of this city, attributes the colic in question to the
excessive use of ice water as a beverage. The vicissi-
tudes of heat and cold, in what way soever produced,
perhaps sometimes a hot mid-day sun, with cool and
humid nights, seem to me to be among the probable
assignable causes; and, according to my recollection,339
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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/m1/339/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.