Colocynthis coloc.

Colo. / The Colonel.

Colocynthis,-Thine the hand,
That constricteth like a band.
And with griping colic rent,
Holds the body double bent.
Thine a purging bowel with pain,
Thine a dysenteric drain,
Thine a pain neuralgic, spread
O'er the thigh, face, eye and head.
Stitches, with a cramp-like squeeze
Note thy idiosyncrasies.
Thine a stiffness of a sort,
As if caused by tendons short.
Thine a fetid urine, too,
Almost like a gelly glue.
Better after wind goes through,
And from drink and coffee, too.
Worse from water, and from food,
And when in an angry mood.

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The Colonel,-Has a Sense of constriction.

Colonel Cato Plu-phos, the Masonic Knight, is with Ana Plat.

The Colonel,-Who is subject to colic, bending him double,- Calls on the squaw, Maggie Rhen, for ice.

Sense of constriction: Colo., Cact., PB., Pho., Mer., Sul., Arg. n., Ana., Plat.

Colic- double bent: Colo., Caul., Cimi., Mag. c., Rheum, Chin. (See Colic, general.)