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GASES ILLUSTRATING THE TREATMENT. 161
vibrations over the abdomen for about twenty-five minutes,
followed by slow and gentle petrissage of the abdomen. Light
frictions over the dorsal nerves and those of the neck, and
some on the arms and legs, were also administered, partly with
a view to reducing the temperature and partly for general
stimulation.
. When I returned in the afternoon at four o’clock, the tempera-
ture had gone down to 100"6°; he had had four calls to stool.
The boy looked much better, he took notice of what passed
around him, and chattered all the time I treated him.
At eleven o’clock in the evening I found my patient peace-
fully asleep, having been in this condition for two hours. He
had been much better after I left in the afternoon.
July 12th, 4 P.M. The child had slept all through the night
;
had no fever, no diarrhoea. Treatment same as day before,
and given for the last time. The boy was allowed to rise the
following day. Light and cautions diet was prescribed. There
has been no relapse.
In September 1886 I had also a patient, a boy ten years old,
suffering from the same complaint. He had turned ill in the
evening very .suddenly when going to bed. The vomiting in
this case was very distressing, the stools were more watery, the
pain in the abdomen was very considerable. I treated him after
the same manner as the above case. The sickness and diarrhoea
ceased on the following morninsr
XXVIIL PERITONITIS.
A. S., aged 8, came under my care on July 13th, 1889. On
the previous day he had complained of slight pain in the
abdomen. The pain subsided towards the evening, but re-
turned suddenly and with great violence on the following
afternoon, accompanied by vomiting. I was at once sent for,
but could not call before midnight. I then found the patient
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