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CONSTIPATED COLIC.
Baron Larrey has attributed a somewhat similar colic
epidemic to such vicissitudes.
What relationship or resemblance has the Texas colic
in question to the dry-belly-ache of the West Indies ?
I never saw the dry-belly-ache of the West Indies, nor
can I now investigate the matter by reference to books.
I have stated that the patent-belly-ache prevailed
here in 1847; it was succeeded by epidemic yellow fever,
the latter epidemic seeming to take the place of the
former.
I was absent from home during the hot season of last
year, 1848, but I am certainly informed that the patent-
belly-ache or constipated colic prevailed here during the
last hot season, the summer and autumn of 1848, and
that it was succeeded and appeared to be displaced by
the yellow fever, in the same manner as happened the
preceding year. I may here state that the number of
cases of yellow fever in this city last year was very
small, owing, perhaps, in a great measure, to tile small
number of unacclimated persons.
Meuitioning these facts to Dr. John 11. Bowers, of
Brazos Santiago, he informed me, that during the hot
season of 1848, a constipated colic, like that which I
have attempted imperfectly to describe, prevailed as an
epidemic at Brazos Santiago; that it was suddenly dis-
placed or superceded by epidemic yellow fever; that
after a period, yellow fever wholly disappeared, and the
constipated colic or patent-belly-ache resumed its reign.
I begged Dr. Bowers to draw me up an account of
these facts, and of the colic in question, which he has
obligingly done. I have taken on myself the liberty of
transmitting his communication to you, thinking that
his facts possess interest for the medical public, and340
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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/m1/340/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.