_Treatment._—Having reason to believe that the patient is labouring under simple spasm of the intestines, unmixed with inflammatory tendency, derived from idiopathic enteritis; or symptomatic irritation from inversion, involution, invagination, or intussusception of the intestinal track; proceed at once to administer such one or more of the numberless antispasmodic remedies as custom and experience have warranted the use of. Numerous as these are, there is not one that has not its advocate, and perhaps not one that does not deserve it, so simple are the means sometimes required; and so much is the constitution prone, in some cases, to assist itself or our efforts. While, at the same time, other cases occur, sufficiently obstinate, and sufficiently fatal, to require all our energies, and all our discrimination in the choice of our remedies, I can confidently speak to the antispasmodic qualities of the following, which should one or either of them be given as soon as possible, and repeated in one, two, three, or four hours, according to the violence of the symptoms, if no benefit be apparent from the first dose: for it must be remembered, that what we do we must do quickly, to prevent inflammation, for, of the fatal cases, four-fifths show evident marks of enteritic attack on a post-mortem examination. 1. Ground pepper ½ oz. Spirit of turpentine 2 oz. Tincture of opium 1 oz. Sound ale 4 oz. Mix. 2. Spirit of vitriolic æther 1 oz. Tincture of opium (laudanum) 2 oz. Oil of peppermint 1 drachm. Common gin, and sound ale, of each ¼ of a pint. 3. Spirit of turpentine 2 oz. Oil of peppermint 1 drachm. Castor oil, and watery tincture of aloes (Mat. Med.) each 6 oz. As a domestic remedy, and one which has relieved at the moment, when other medicines were not at hand, I would recommend the following:— Ground pepper 1 tea-spoonful. The juice of two or three large onions Common gin, and sound ale, of each ¼ of a pint.