When several months pregnant the woman was seized with colicky pains and thought them a call of nature.
Pare relates the case of a Captain who was shot through the fleshy portion of the diaphragm, and though the wound was apparently healed, the patient complained of a colicky pain.
Pearse mentions a woman of thirty-six who had suffered menorrhagia for ten days, and was in a state of great prostration and suffering from strongcolicky pains.
The stomach and bowels are liable to distension by flatus, sometimes to the extent of producing colicky pains.
The abdominal pain is of a tearing, lancinating, sometimes colicky character.
Children suffering from roundworms experience a loss of appetite, varying temperature from above normal to subnormal, with colicky pains in the abdomen on coming to the table and beginning to eat.
Putting the feet in very warm water is also quieting to the crying colicky babe.
In perfectly healthy digestion there is always more or less gas developed, and even then there may be colicky pains.
The old German household remedy for this is fennel seed tea; there is nothing as useful; it expels the gas and it quenches the thirst from which colicky children suffer, at least while they have the colic.
I have seen very nervous children thrown into convulsions from severe colicky pains.
The seat of the pain, when of a colicky nature, is in the uterus; when a continuously dull ache is in the small of the back, it is located in the nervous plexus in the small of the back.
The organ becomes involved in chronic inflammatory processes that make the uterus exceedingly sensitive, so that the colicky pains become aggravated and prolonged far beyond the cessation of the menses.
Those who are under one year old are the most liable to colicky pains, for it is during this period of life that digestive disturbances are the most frequent, and these constitute the chief cause.
The retching and vomiting are very obstinate, and continue for a long time; the matters thrown up are sometimes streaked with blood; there is pain in the abdomen of a colicky character--a pain relieved by pressure.
The symptoms occasioned by it are rather obscure and are such as might arise from a number of other causes, namely, colicky pains, depraved appetite, diarrhea or constipation, and general unthriftiness.
Colicky pains, more or less severe and continuous, are observed, and at first there may be diarrhea, followed by constipation.
The effect in either case is to produce anemia of the intestinal canal, serous or bloody exudation in its walls, which leads to paralysis of the intestine and resultant colicky symptoms.
The colicky symptoms of these hernias are not diagnostic, but, probably, more closely resemble those of enteritis than any other bowel diseases.
When the calculi attain a sufficient size and become lodged or blocked in some part of the intestines, they cause obstruction, inflammation of the bowels, colicky symptoms, and death.
If the case is not complicated with colicky symptoms a change to light, sloppy diet, linseed gruel or tea, with plenty of exercise, is all that is required.
When, during the existence of colicky symptoms, we find a horse kicking with his hind feet while standing or lying upon his back, we should look to the inguinal region and scrotum.
Any such indication, with colicky pains, straining, however little, and active movement of the fetus or entire absence of movement, are suggestive symptoms and should be duly counteracted.
In general the animal stops eating or eats but little; it shows colicky pain; fever develops; the pulse and respiration become rapid; the mucous membrane becomes red; the mouth is hot and dry.
Colicky symptoms, of course, are present, which vary much and present no diagnostic value.
These are rarely found in the horse, but may occupy the hepatic ducts, giving rise to jaundice and to colicky pains.
The urine is scanty and high colored, and when the intestines are much affected a bloody diarrhea may set in, with colicky pains.
If there is much colicky pain, add one-half grain of salol to the bismuth powder.
Sudden colicky pain in the bowels, moving about with rumbling noises.
In children there are loose bowels andcolicky pains.
But this is by no means constant, scarcely I think general; and not infrequently momentary, causeless, colicky pains precede for a short time any other symptom.
The child next becomes restless and feverish at night, its thirst is considerable, and the colicky pains become both more severe and more frequent.
Whenever he had a touch of his old colicky gout, he said it did him more good than any thing else in the world.
No young man who is free, happy and independent, need invest his money in a family or carry a colicky child twenty-seven miles and two laps in one night unless he prefers it.
Sometimes the inflammation extends to the ureters and pelves of the kidneys, causing violent pains in the loins, nausea, occasional vomiting, and colicky affections.
Often the patient complains of colickypains all over the abdomen, and of sickness without vomiting.
The symptoms of the affection are usually at first those of indigestion, a fullness of the stomach, flatulency, and colicky pains.
Disease of the kidneys occasionally produces numbness of the thigh and drawing up of the testicle, and commonly causes colicky pains.
The attack may be sudden, although it is usually preceded by a sensation of uneasiness and colicky pains in the stomach.
Where colicky symptoms are present, roll the colt on its back, manipulating the scrotum.
When colicky pains are present treat the same as for spasmodic colic.
If the horse shows colicky pains, administer the same treatment as that recommended for colic.
Sometimes the intestines will become strangulated and colicky symptoms appear.
This may arise from unhealthy irritating contents of the bowels producing spasmodic, griping, and colicky pains, or from diarrhoea with tenesmus arising from exposure to cold, or from irritation caused by the pressure of the gravid womb.
It may be preceded by constipation, as in retained meconium, or by fetid eructations and colicky pains, as in acute indigestion.
There may be pain on passing dung and also abdominal or colicky pain.
There is evidence ofcolicky pain, and the abdomen is sensitive to pressure.
In some severe cases colicky pains are as violent as in the worst forms of indigestion and spasms of the bowels.
An accumulation goes on for some time, until irritation is set up by the presence of such a large quantity of material in the intestine, and then colicky efforts for its removal are occasioned.
They occur probably with more frequency in the abdomen than elsewhere; they may be thought to be colicky in nature and, as a rule, some accumulation of gas will be found.
I have frequently found that patients who complained of vague abdominal uneasiness, sometimes rising particularly at night to the height of colicky feelings but always on the left side, were indulging to excess in tea or coffee.
From the irritating influence of preternaturally retained feces, colicky pains are, as a rule, induced, and the ultimate effects may be such as to lead to the production of fatal inflammation.
He has attacks of colicky pains, indigestion, and constipation.
This is attended by straining, diarrhoea, evolution of gaseous matter, colicky pains, and possibly sympathetic disturbance of the genito-urinary organs.
Colicky pains in the transverse portions of the colon may also be mistaken for pains in the stomach.
Violent griping and colicky pains (tormina) traverse the abdomen, with sickening sensations of depression.
If the size and shape of the body permit its passage into the small intestine, it makes its way very slowly along this tube, giving rise to occasional attacks of colicky pains and symptoms of partial impermeability of the bowel.
Purgatives do not give the relief ordinarily obtained, but add to the griping, colicky pains, nausea, and general depression.
They are a sense of fulness or distress in the abdomen from gaseous distension, slight colicky pains, and a rumbling of gas, which may be prolonged during several hours after a meal.
Colicky pains occur, and in a case cited it was at one time very severe, at another only slight.
There are in these cases anorexia and vomiting, constipation and diarrhoea, colicky pains, mostly concentrated about the ileo-caecal region.
General shivering, rarely accompanied by colicky pains, followed by partial sweats at the flanks and the inside of the thighs.
Shivering, usually accompanied by slight colicky pains, and followed by general or partial sweating.
In the spasmodic form the attack comes on suddenly, the colicky pains are severe, and the peristaltic movement of the intestine is marked and accompanied by loud intestinal sounds.
It is characterized by colicky pains, convulsions and coma.
In the mild form, the colicky pains are not prominent, but in the acute form, the animal is restless, getting up and down in the stall and rolling over.
The symptoms are loss of appetite, restlessness and sometimes colicky pains.
At the beginning, colickypains may be present and later constipation and diarrhoea.
The symptoms may vary from impaired appetite and slight restlessness to violent, colicky pains.
The symptoms are as follows: Constipation accompanied by a feverish condition precedes the diarrhoea; colicky pains are sometimes manifested; the diarrhoea is usually accompanied by depression, falling off in appetite and weakness.
If the vessel involved by the thrombus happens to be a mesenteric vessel, then a loop of intestine has its blood supply cut off, and colicky pains result.
Certain articles of food render the milk acid, and thus induce colicky pains and bowel complaints in the child.
A hot infusion, taken as tea, soothes stomach ache, allays sickness, and stays colicky diarrhoea.
