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CONSTIPATED COLIC.
It was also very difficult to administer remedies in suffi-
cient quantities, and injections, always resisted when
given, produced spasms and were ejected at once. He was
also too much debilitated by yellow fever to allow of
bleeding. About the third morning my servant called
me and said that Mr. Gerger was dead. I went into
his room to see, and found him lying on his face across
the floor, some four feet from hi, bed, to all appearance
lifeless; a slight tremor about the heart, and the faint-
est idea of breath, were all the signs of life I could per-
ceive in him. I had him laid on his bed, covered him
with a sheet, had an injection given him, which was
retained, and had him rubbed with spirits of hartshorne
and water, and then left him, to attend to the numerous
other cases I had, without having the slightest hope of ever
seeing him alive again. On my return to the office some
six hours after, to my unspeakable surprise I found Mr.
G. sitting in my arm chair, neatly dressed and shaved,
and perfectly rational. It seems that an hour or two
after I left him his bowels suddenly operated powerfully,
and he awoke from his stupor, but without knowing
where he was. The time from the moment he had the
first spasm until he recovered entirely, was a perfect
blank in his existence. It is, perhaps, needless to add
that he recovered speedily and perfectly, and in a few
days left for Matamoras. I forgot to mention the fact,
that but few persons who suffered with the colic disease
took the yellow fever afterwards, and vice versa, but
still I recollect two instances. The first was the Master
of a United States tow steamer, who had an attack of
colic of some four or five days duration, from which he
recovered entirely, and who had an attack of yellow
fever some six weeks afterwards. The other was a347
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/347/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.