Belly-Ach, or Colic, is a disease which may arise from various causes, and is generally accompanied with costiveness, though sometimes also with diarrhoea, especially in children. Adults frequently come liable to attacks of this malady, in consequence of excess in eating, or after partaking of incongruous mixtures, or dishes, which may occasion a distension of the bowels.

The symptoms of this complaint, in infants, are, sudden cries, con-traction of the thighs towards the belly, striking with the feet, distortions of the face, not unlike those in laughing, hastily seizing and relinquishing the maternal breasts, acid eructations etc - If the child be costive, it will be necessary to relieve the bowels with very small doses of manna and rhubarb, given in chamomile tea, every half hour, till they- produce the desired effect: sometimes a small quantity of the powder of gum arabic is an useful Addition. When green feces are discharged, a few drams of mag-nesia, with one or two of rhubarb, according to the age of the infant, may be given with advantage; but the greatest benefit will, on such occasions, be derived from a proper application of clysters, composed either of a decoction of chamomile, with a spoonful or two of sweet oil, and a few grains of salt; or milk, oil and sugar, or merely a solution of white soap and water; which last is the cheapest, and most efficacious. Cataplasms, or the common poultice, made of bread, milk, and oil, may likewise be applied to the lower part of the belly, and repeated as often as they grow cold ; adding every time the necessary portion of new milk, to give them a proper consistence. - See Colic. Belts, acroamatic. See QuackeRY.