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Cook was now taken seriously ill and was confined to his bed for several days by what he calls the bilious cholic, during which time "Mr. Patten, the surgeon, was to me, not only a skilful physician, but an affectionate nurse." He recovered very slowly, and the want of fresh food told against him when it came to the question of gathering strength.
Ever since he arrived in Sweden he had experienced a loss of appetite, with cholic and diarrhoea; and That on dissection, the spleen was found of a black colour and in a state of decomposition, and the liver indurated and dark coloured. Whilst during life he had experienced no symptoms corresponding to these appearances. Dr.
And then, in the minister's own hand, was added: "Likewise for sprains, rub it in; and for the cholic, a great spooneful in the hour."
The cholic in adults arises from a variety of causes, not easily distinguished except by professional persons; and therefore it is absolutely necessary to abstain from all violent remedies, or it may be attended with fatal consequences.
It should be kept tight from the air. Summer-savory is excellent to season soup, broth, and sausages. As a medicine, it relieves the cholic. Pennyroyal and tansy are good for the same medicinal purpose. Green wormwood bruised is excellent for a fresh wound of any kind.
He vowed that he could not sleep of nights, and that the gout and the cholic, to which he was always a martyr, were nothing to the anguish which had now come upon his soul and brain, such as he had never suffered since the bloody day of St. Bartholomew.
"On one occasion the king required his services. He was suffering from a sort of cholic, for which the native doctors could give him no relief.
"Harkee, my friend," says he to me, "upon reflection I do believe that I have been hasty. The spasm passes. It may well be that it was the excellence of this honest man's catering which betrayed me, and not any infernal design. A passing cholic, after all!" He smiled benevolently upon his recent prisoner.
You would suddenly come upon a rosy-coloured gentleman, with a gun to his shoulder, in the act of shooting game then a girl with a basket of huge cabbages an old man in a fit of the cholic; the same rosy gentleman violently kissing a violet-coloured young lady; and, at the next turn, you would find the violet-coloured young lady fast asleep upon a bank.
But believe me the cholic will not delay coming, and it will require skill to empty the body of the devilry again." "You appear to consider the affair on the jesting side," cried the Marshal.
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