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Symptoms (Fixed burning pain in the sto)
A fixed, burning pain in the sto- * Take a sufficient quantity of the leaves, stem and pods of the plant, put them into a bottle and fill it up with brandy or spirits, and let it remain for a few days. | mach, small, very quick hard pulse, sudden and great weakness, the pain in the stomach increased | pains and fullness in the stomach; belching; a on the slightest pressure, vomiting, hiccup.
Causes. Cold suddenly applied to the body or stomach, drinking largely of cold water while very warm. The striking in of eruptions, poisons, gout, rheumatism. Distinguish it from inflammation of the bowels by the seat of the pain, which is just below the breast bone, in what is called the pit of the stomach, the burning heat and pain there, by the hiccup and vomiting.
Treatment. The softness of the pulse is here no rule to go by, for it is caused by the disease.
The rule is to bleed or leech over the pit of the stomach. From ten to twenty ounces may be taken in a full stream from a robust man at the beginning. As soon as he is bled, or while the blood is flowing, put him into a warm bath, and have a large blister prepared, which, after he has remained some time in the bath, should be applied directly over the stomach. A warm laxative clyster is now to be thrown up, and when the stomach will retain it, give him small quantities of arrow root jelly or gum arabic tea from time to time, with a few drops of laudanum. The most rigid diet must be observed, and the patient kept very quiet.
When the inflammation is reduced, and the stomach will bear it, a grain of solid opium may be given occasionally with advantage. If the disease has been brought on by poison taken into the stomach, apply the remedies directed in such cases. If mortification ensues, death is the inevitable consequence. It is known to exist when from the state of torture we have just described there is a sudden change to one of perfect ease.
Cramp in the Stomach.