If the circulation is weak, dependence should be placed on purgation by some of the simple vegetable cathartics or a small dose of calomel.
Salines should not be allowed, or othercathartics which cause profuse watery discharges.
Cathartics and purgatives are not to be given; in due time the object will appear in the stool.
All other possible causes should be located and removed; the child should have absolute rest in bed with brisk cathartics and a liquid diet (no meat broths).
Cathartics should be administered, and eliminative measures instituted such as the hot-blanket pack.
Campbell[31] in a discussion of laminitis has the following to say regarding the treatment of such cases: Because superpurgation may be followed by laminitis, the advisability of using the active hypodermic cathartics is questioned.
A regimen that is nutritive and at the same time laxative is essential and in some cases cathartics and enemata are necessary.
This we accomplish by partially unloading it by the use of the active hypodermic cathartics and stopping absorption by the surest and most harmless of intestinal astringents.
Superior to digitalis, strophanthus, scoparius, squills, acetate of potash and the hydragogue cathartics all put together.
The abuse of saline cathartics by the public is an evil deserving of serious attention.
Cathartics are divided into laxatives and purgatives.
Promoting this mixture of well-known laxatives and cathartics as an “ideal aid to any remedial agent when a mild, medium or strong alimentary stimulant is needed” is a slur on the intelligence of physicians.
Both gratify the innate love for self-medication by a resort to cathartics for the slightest ailment.
Among the cathartics that may be used in ascites, it has seemed to me that the milder hydragogues are safest.
Hydragogue cathartics have, therefore, an important place in the treatment of ascites of hepatic origin.
Salines which cause outward diffusion from the vessels are the only cathartics which can be used with propriety.
In all forms of catarrhal gastritis, especially if symptoms of portal congestion are present, mild mercurial cathartics are attended with benefit.
If pain or tenderness be present at the seat of impaction, cathartics should be used very cautiously or not at all, and opium given instead.
Fecal tumors[40] are preceded by habitual constipation, and are most common in elderly people; they are changed in position and size or made to disappear by cathartics or rectal injections.
Avoiding the use of catharticsin the onset of acute illness, the nature of which is not known, is a useful prophylactic measure.
As simple purging by other cathartics does not abort the gouty seizure, the value of colchicum cannot be ascribed to its purging effect, and, besides, purging is by no means necessary to its efficiency.
Experience has proved that active or drastic cathartics do harm rather than good; on the other hand, mild laxatives, especially those having cholagogue action, seem to do good.
Purgatives and hydragogue cathartics usually fail to give relief, and add much to the patient's discomfort.
Drastic or powerful cathartics will only tend to aggravate the disease, and on that account mild laxatives are to be preferred in all cases.
It is said that cathartics in some instances have unlocked the bowel in intestinal obstruction: these cases are exceptional, and many of them were probably functional and not structural in character.
The following is a good cathartic in some instances, especially if the stomach be irritable, so that the more bulky and nauseating cathartics are rejected.
The use of drastic cathartics should be avoided, as should that of sudorifics, on account of their prostrating effects.
Constipation is to be overcome by gentle purgatives, as the use of powerful cathartics is very apt to be followed by troublesome diarrhoea.
Under all {334} circumstances it will be well to remember the advice given by Baglivi two centuries ago, to avoid the use of active cathartics in this disease.
Cathartics and diuretics are alike useless, and the former injurious.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will act most congenially, and will be followed by no constipating reaction, which invariably occurs when drastic cathartics are employed.
Drastics are those catharticswhich produce numerous evacuations accompanied by more or less intestinal irritation.
Carminatives are medicines which allay intestinal pain, arrest or prevent griping caused by cathartics and exert a general soothing effect.
Our chief reliance, however, as in the preceding diseases, should be upon the persistent use of alteratives and mild cathartics or laxatives.
Cathartics constitute a class of remedies which are almost universally employed by families and physicians.
The proper means and appliances for quickening the circulation of the blood are indicated, and friction upon the surface, bathing, the daily use of such catharticsas Dr.
These diseases will bear thorough depletion of the alimentary canal, active, hydragogue cathartics being indicated.
Formerly esteemed one of the most safe and certaincathartics in troublesome constipation.
The above are favourite cathartics in worms, especially for children.
It is one of the most powerful cathartics known, and acts when either swallowed or merely placed in the mouth.
In some instances, emetics andcathartics are necessary; mucilages, as gum arabic or slippery-elm bark, would be good.
Harsh cathartics must not be employed; and if a simple enema of warm water early every morning does not give the desired relief, I would recommend a daily dose of Femina laxative syrup.
It does not irritate the diseased canals--as cathartics do--but aids in the escape of imprisoned feces and gases which lodge above the region of the morbid process.
Daily evacuations will not empty this cavity, nor will cathartics or diarrhea.
In the former of these, or miliaria irritata, the eruptions were distinct and larger than the small-pox, and the fever was not subdued without two or three venesections, and repeated cathartics with calomel.
These cathartics should not induce more than two or three stools.
In young strong patients the gout should be cured by venesection and cathartics and diluents, with poultices externally.
Cathartics of the mild kind, as sena, jalap, neutral salts, manna.
Violent cathartics invert the motions of the lacteals, and intestinal lymphatics.
The lancet however with repeated mild cathartics is the great agent in destroying this enormous excitement of the system, so long as the strength of the patient will admit of evacuations.
The feces must sometimes be taken away by the end of a marrow-spoon, as cathartics and even clyster will pass without removing them.
This fever continued, though with remissions, for two or three weeks; and the patient repeatedly lost blood, used cathartics with calomel and sena, and had frequent antimonial and saline medicines.
Cathartics with their harsh action on the delicate membranes are contraindicated.
Cathartics are irritants and it is a very poor beginning to abuse the mucous membrane of the intestinal tract immediately.
Colic, as we all know, is frequently caused by fermentation of the food in the stomach and bowels, and castor oil is one of the best known cathartics in a case of this kind.
When it is caused by the heart or kidneys, give cathartics that carry away much liquid, hydragogue cathartics.
May apple, rhubarb, castor oil, and other cathartics that act upon the first or small bowels may be selected.
The use ofcathartics is dangerous, for they may excite superpurgation.
Cathartics act by drawing off a large quantity of fluid from the blood through the intestines, and have the advantage over the last remedy of removing only the watery and not the formed elements from the circulation.
This is an aromatised and sweetened tincture of senna, to which other catharticsare generally added.
Compound extract of colocynth is often adulterated with acrid cathartics to make up for the deficiency or inferiority of its proper ingredients, and foreign matter often becomes mixed with it by the use of impure scammony.
In any case it is decidedly bad to resort to drugs, since the habit of taking cathartics is so easily acquired and so difficult to overcome.
Cathartics simply excite the excretory processes, and stimulate Nature to a violent effort to expel them, the unnatural exertion being followed by a feeling of languor, for all purgative action is debilitating.
It would be next to impossible to find an individual addicted to the use of cathartics whose digestion was not, practically, a wreck.
The true action of cathartics explained, and popular suppositions corrected.
The continual excitation of the excretory processes by the use of cathartics is a most pernicious practice and should be shunned.
Even in emergencies we need to know why we administer cathartics and in chronic cases we may be sure that they are always a mistake.
We have only to read the endless advertisements of cathartics and "internal baths," or to check up the quantity of laxatives sold at any drug store, to realize the wide-spread bondage to that great bugaboo constipation.
Cathartics invariably make the real condition more obstinate and serious.
Naturally we cannot consider catharticsof any kind, notwithstanding their power to produce temporary results.
Cathartics may be advantageously divided into three groups:--1.
In the second group the great majority of Cathartics are included.
As evacuants, Cathartics are employed in diseases of the brain especially; and Diuretics are made use of in dropsies to diminish the amount of fluid in the blood, and in this way to promote absorption.
Cathartics are medicines which tend to increase the secretion from the inner surface of the bowels, and promote the natural expulsion of the contents of the intestinal tube.
I believe that the same resinous Cathartics which have the power of acting specifically, may have, especially when in large doses, a double action.
But we have now to do with Cathartics that act by topical irritation.
Cathartics do this by their action on the contiguous mucous membrane of the intestines.
With this view, Cathartics are employed in constipation, Diaphoretics for dryness of skin, Cholagogues in torpid states of the liver.
It is by cleaning such matters out of the blood, as well as by their antiphlogistic or evacuant action, that Cathartics become useful in so many diseases, and particularly in disorders of the brain.
It has also been shown that both from actual experiment, and from a consideration of the laws of the process of absorption, we must conclude that saline Cathartics are absorbed into the blood before they cause purging.
Some Cathartics employed as Vermifuges, as the hairs of Mucuna pruriens, metallic Mercury, and Tin powder, cannot be absorbed at all, and must act solely and altogether by irritation.
The majority of Catharticsincrease this secretion.
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