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Symptoms (Violent spasmodic pain)
Violent spasmodic pain in the stomach, which is so severe as nearly to occasion fainting.
Treatment. Give thirty to sixty drops of laudanum, in a teaspoonful of ether, with a little hot wine. Apply a mustard plaster over the stomach, bladders or bottles filled with warm water to the soles of the feet, or put the patient into the warm bath. If the first dose of laudanum does not relieve the pain, repeat it. Hiccups.
Symptoms. A spasmodic affection of the stomach and diaphragm, producing the peculiar noise which gives rise to the name.