Looseness of the bowels or a tendency thereto, with discharge of mucus, or frequent attacks of colic (abdominal pain) or stomach-ache.
If the colic continues, put ten drops of turpentine into a half teacupful of warm water, and inject this slowly into the rectum, and at the same time gently rub the abdomen so as to start the wind.
Kidney (renal) colic comes on when a stone enters the ureter, if it is at all large.
Where the baby does not vomit, the surplus food passes into the bowels and causes colic and green and yellow gassy stools.
In nursing babies this may be due to some irregularity in the health or habits of the mother, or change in her dieting, and if the colic is not persistent the cause is not hard to find.
External: It is applied for colic due to flatulence and for acute inflammation of different organs and is also good when applied to the nape of the neck in headache, neuralgia, etc.
Both Arthur and I believe she saved baby's life by her prompt action when the coliccaught her.
But it hadcolic most dreadfully, and Louise was in despair.
And that cured the colic but almost burned poor little Jane's insides out.
Diagnosis of obstruction by gall-stones is often aided by the fact that the patient has recently suffered characteristic pains of hepatic colic and by the icterous condition of the skin.
If colic is due to indigestible food, a sensation of weight will be complained of at the epigastrium, griping pains occur at short intervals, with flatulence, vomiting, and later diarrhoea.
In flatulentcolic means should be directed to expel the gas.
Slowly-developing symptoms of jaundice from obstruction may arise from the deposit of particles of inspissated bile in the hepatic ducts, or sudden attacks of hepatic colic be due to the passage of concretions.
Attacks of pancreatic colic indicate the use of anodynes.
The diseases most likely to be confounded with acute pancreatitis are biliary colic and the catarrhal form of acute gastritis.
In purpura rheumatica the arthritic pains will be alleviated by anodyne liniments and plasters, and the often accompanying abdominal pains and colic by anodynes internally administered.
The objects of treatment in colic are to relieve suffering and terminate the attack as soon as possible.
Similarly, in the intestines the foods undergo decomposition instead of normal digestion; gases of putrefaction are evolved, the abdomen generally is swollen, and flatulentcolic results.
The symptoms of chronic lead poisoning vary within very wide limits, from colic and constipation up to total blindness, paralysis, convulsions and death.
Its victims become of a sallow-waxy hue; the functions of the stomach and bowels are deranged, appetite fails and painful colic with constipation supervenes.
It stops in its heaven-born colic generation, and pulls a rusty needle out of its person.
Think how interesting those needles would make it for the great colic promoter!
Why when she cries out, Solus Rex me facit miseram, she says in the Hypocronicall <39> language, that she is so miserably tormented with the wind colic that it racks her very soul.
The spy recovered from his colic and supped with us every evening, but his presence no longer interfered with my pleasure since Nina had ceased to prostitute herself to him in my presence.
Everybody is afraid to come; they fear Ricla's jealousy, for it is well known that that animal who is now suffering from the colic tells him everything I do.
Of the symptoms of enteritis, colic and constipation, with a hard thin pulse, are the most prominent.
The symptoms of colic have been much confused by Blaine, who, when describing them, evidently alludes to many forms of disease with which abdominal spasm has no connexion.
In some cases, the appearance of colic is almost a certain indication that the poor beast will die.
During the champing colic may set in, which will only yield when the fits are established.
Colic always precedes this, for the accident could not occur unless the bowel was in places spasmodically contracted.
Signs of colic are distributed along the entire length of the alimentary tubes.
If colic should attack the animal, laudanum must be administered, and in small but repeated doses, until the pain is dismissed.
Colic is always due to indigestion, and is the result of the food undergoing fermentative changes, with the production of gases.
Hot water is good for constipation, torpid liver, and relieves colic and flatulence, and is of special value.
Severe colic is usually the result of derangement of the liver in the mother, or of her insufficient or improper nourishment, and it occurs more frequently when the child is from two to five months old.
Castor oil, given as soon as the symptoms of colic manifest themselves, has frequently afforded relief.
All through the Middle Ages iron rings were worn, which were good for colicand biliousness and also for rheumatic pains.
The colic seems to be due to nothing more than the effort of the large intestine to push off the thick mucus which has been secreted, and which in many cases clings to the bowel walls.
I have seen a man suffering from excruciating biliary colic get almost immediate relief when put standing on his head alongside of a lounge.
The man with colic very soon discovers that lying on his stomach may relieve his pain.
Colic was cured by pills of excrementitious materials, and by all sorts of other deterrent remedies.
Under these circumstances there may be symptoms resembling true biliary colic with some jaundice and pain that radiates toward the right shoulder.
I suffered keenly from the horse colic and like troubles and from the many hopes and perils of democracy in my childhood.
This type may be considered as being inaugurated by the form of ileo-colic junction found in the Manidae or Pangolins, as illustrated by Figs.
Comparison of portion of human transverse colon with distal segment of rabbit's large intestine, showing same arrangement of longitudinal muscular bands (colic taenia) and colic sacculations.
Systematic consideration of the ileo-colic junction and the connected structures in the vertebrate series.
The membrane is seen to pass from the ventral aspect of the vertebral column and aorta, through the narrow neck of the duodeno-colic isthmus, to expand in the manner already indicated toward its intestinal attachment.
A second modification of the intestinal canal, suggesting the same physiological interpretation as the ileo-colic caecum, is presented by the so-called pyloric caeca or appendices of many Teleosts and Ganoids already referred to (p.
Throughout these changes the initial crescentic curve of the caecum, turning its concavity upwards and to the left, can be recognized by tracing the course of the longitudinal colic muscular bands.
We have seen that this early adhesion and the resulting effects on the position of caecum and appendix depend on the direct apposition of the colic tube and mesocolon to the dorsal parietal peritoneum.
More commonly colic adhesion before the caecum obtains its final iliac position results in imparting a backward turn to the pouch, leading to the peritoneal disposition shown in schema, Fig.
Colic deep in pelvis; pains run down back of thigh to knees.
This lasted until October, 1836, when I was attacked with violent colic in one night.
Beware of colic remedies that are given in drop doses.
WIND COLIC (Flatulent Colic) CAUSE: This dangerous form of Colic is a distension of the bowels with gas, resulting generally from the decomposition of undigested food in the bowels.
Sometimes this disease is mistaken for colic or acute indigestion, but it can be readily distinguished by the color of the urine.
If severe bloating accompanies a case of Colic in cattle place one ounce dose of Oil of Turpentine in ounce capsules and give with capsule gun.
In practically all cases they produce indigestion, especially among young horses, also loss of condition, colic and even death.
Unfavorable symptoms of spasmodic colic are cold legs to the feet, point of the ears cold, trembling of the muscles, cold sweats, mucous membranes of the nose, mouth and eyes have a dark color due to the congestion.
It is also a heart stimulant, just what is needed in colic to keep up the animal's vitality.
I may conclude that Flatulent or Wind Colicis usually caused by errors in feeding and watering horses.
It would be robbing a woman of a privilege not to let her trot the colic out of her own baby," Sallie got near enough in sight of the discussion to shout softly from the rear.
Let the reader, if he has ever seen a case of colic treated by us, contrast the result.
Ginger tea is a useful remedy for removing colic and flatulency, and is safer and better adapted to the animal economy, where stimulants are indicated, than alcoholic preparations.
Colic is occasioned by a want of physiological power in the organs of digestion, so that the food, instead of undergoing a chemico-vital process, runs into fermentation, by which process carbonic acid gas is evolved.
Give nature a little chance to show what she intends to do before attempting to stop her by dosing yourself with some pain-reliever orcolic cure.
The colic of children and infants should never be treated with alcoholics.
Colic resulting from the accumulation of fecal matter should be treated with hot enemas until relieved.
Its presence occasions severe colic and other violent symptoms, often proving fatal to the bearer.
In embolism and thrombosis of the mesenteric arteries the symptoms during life are entirely identical with those observed in the so-called colic of horses, as has been determined by numerous observations.
There were hundreds of worms present in the vicinity of the ileo-colic valve.
If I could have discharged my gun," he afterwards said, in relating the circumstance, "I should have been tempted to rid him of his bilious colic by a surgical operation.
Afterwards I work'd in Bonne Terre at da smelter but got lead colic an quit thar.
After I left dere I went to Bonne Terre and got married and got mine sickness or lead colic from workin' in de furnace and had to quit.
I returned home to my friends at the close of the term well, and have been well ever since--have never had a colic pain or any costiveness since that time.
These painful paroxysms of uterine colic repeat themselves at each recurring menstrual period, and through these repetitions of pain and suffering, the general health becomes greatly deranged.
Through reflex irritation from the nerves of the uterus other nerve centers become involved, so that a general neurasthenia becomes developed with its characteristic concomitants of neuralgia, muscular spasms, uterinecolic and hysteria.
Colic is the result of an abnormal accumulation of gas, flatulency, in the small intestine.
Children suffering fromcolic have the abdomen swollen or bloated, giving rise to that condition termed meteorismus or tympanites.
Conception has taken place in extreme flexions, because the spermatozoa can gain admittance into the uterine cavity for several days after the uterine colic and menstrual fluid have forced the canal open.
