Phlebotomy or Blood-letting hath no place here, unless there be a great Plethory, but frequent Clysters are not to be rejected, viz.
But Clysters must be forborn on these Occasions, especially when one of the thick Guts is wounded, making use rather of a Suppository or laxative Diet-Drinks, to avoid dilation and straining.
The Clysters may be made with Decoctions of Mercury, Mallows, Beets, a Handful of Barley and Honey of Roses.
The Pain and Inflammation of the Part may be asswag'd by letting Blood, topical Anodyns, cooling Clysters and Purgations; but in case much Blood hath been already lost, Phlebotomy must be omitted.
In case of an obstruction of the bowels, mild laxatives or clysters may be given; and if the throat be affected, it should be gargled with vinegar and water.
Stimulating clysters of warm water and salt, or six ounces of brandy, should be speedily administered.
Clysters of vinegar and water will also be useful, and an attempt should be made to promote sickness, by tickling the throat with a feather dipped in oil.
Nothing can be applied with safety but emollient clysters and fomentations, and to drink copiously of camomile tea, or any other diluting liquor, till the spasms be relieved, and the nature of the disease more clearly understood.
For the sick they use bellows as we use clystersamong us.
Long clysters of drinking are to be voided without doors.
Either of the above clysters is useful in obstinate constipation, "stoppage," or whenever the excrement is hard and dark colored.
As the more general use of clysters is recommended by the author, especially in acute diseases, he has thought proper to introduce, in this part of the work, a few remarks on them, with examples of their different forms.
If clysters are intended to have a nutritive effect, they must be introduced in the most gentle manner, and not more than one pint should be given at any one time, for fear of exciting the expulsive action of the rectum.
In constriction and intussusception of the intestines, and when relaxing clystersare indicated, they should not be too long persevered in, for falling of the rectum has been known, in many instances, to arise from repeated injections.
Nourishing clysters are composed of thin gruel made from flour, &c.
The bath and clysters may be repeated, if necessary.
The use of clystersin the treatment of dysentery dates from the most ancient times, with the object, however, rather of medicating than washing out the bowel.
In occasional cases in which the stomach is very irritable, so that medicines given by the mouth are in great part rejected, our reliance must be largely on rectal medication, and especially on clysters containing an opiate.
Enemata or clysters are now very frequently employed in our large towns, especially among the higher classes; but a great prejudice exists among many persons against their use, arising from a fastidious and mistaken delicacy.
The ordinary catharticclysters are often so called.
This should be combined with clysters and hot fomentations to the belly.
The injection of large quantities of liquid matter into the bowels, as well as the constant use of clysters (even of warm water only), is deemed by the highest medical authorities to be injurious, and occasionally dangerous.
Oil of turpentine by mouth or rectum; clysters of tobacco, nux vomica, electricity.
Clysters containing opium, even in small quantities, are dangerous remedies for young children; yet there are cases in which they sometimes succeed when every other remedy has failed.
Two clystersare prescribed daily in hooping-cough.
When, however, broth and beef tea are used as clysters in such quantities that can be retained, they act most beneficially.
Inferior parts, asclysters strong and weak, and suppositories of Castilian soap, honey boiled, &c.
In this range, clysters and suppositories challenge a chief place, to draw this humour from the brain and heart, to the more ignoble parts.
Clysters of gruel should be continued for three or four days after the inflammation is beginning to subside, and good hand-rubbing applied to the legs.
Clysters of warm water, or containing a solution of aloes, should be injected.
Upon the commencement of the attack give a few doses of calomel or laudanum, or of tincture of aconite, and if the bowels are costive two or three drachms of aloes, afterwards keeping up the laxative effect by mild clysters and mashes.
It is also occasionally used in medicine, in clysters and lotions.
Three or four drachms of aloes in solution will suffice for the horse, and clysters must also be given.
No Clysters are mention'd, nor can they be so profitably used; but they made use of many purging Medicines.
To effect this, after the bowels have been loosened by cooling clysters bleeding will be necessary.
To which purpose give her diaphnicon, with a little castor and sharp clysters that expel the wind.
The mucus of the rectum by aloe internally, by clysters and suppositories externally.
Clysters of Harrowgate water are recomended, either of the natural, or of the factitious, as described below, which might have a greater proportion of liver of sulphur in it.
Secretion of mucus of the rectum is increased by aloe internally, by various clysters and suppositories externally.
As the cold air soon destroys them, after they are voided, could clysters of iced water be used with advantage?
Externally in clysters or suppositories, common salt seems to act on that bowel with greater certainty.
Inverted motions of the intestinal canal with all the lymphatics, which open into it, constitute the ileus, or iliac passion; in which disease it sometimes happens, that clysters are returned by the mouth.
Clysters of carbonated hydrogen gas, or of other factitious airs, might be tried.
As these worms are found only in the rectum, variety of clysters have been recommended.
The clysters should be large in quantity, that they may pass high in the rectum, as two drams of tobacco boiled a minute in a pint of water.
We gave too saline Purges, and laxative Clysters occasionally; and in some Cases ordered the Steams of warm emollient Decoctions with Vinegar to be drawn into the Lungs.
Sydenham[49] trusts principally to drinking freely of Chicken Broth, and throwing up Clysters of the same, and afterwards giving Opiates.
Clysters were used as in recent Cases, where the Sick were low, or had much Pain of the Bowels[43], or complained of a Tenesmus.
Whey, and throwing up frequent Clysters of it, had cured many, and that this was looked upon as a Specific, and kept a Secret by some.
Others required the Use of Cordial Draughts, mixed with Opiates; and repeated Clysters and Fomentations, before they found Relief.
To one of them the aërial clysters were administred, on account of a looseness, which attended the fever, though the stools were not black, nor remarkably hot or foetid.
The air-clysters were continued, and the astringents omitted.
These clysters did not remove the looseness, though there was often a greater interval than usual betwixt the evacuations, after the injection of them.
The clystersof fixed air always diminished the tension of the Abdomen, abated flatulence, and made the patient more easy and composed for some time after their injection.
As a last, but almost hopeless, effort, I advised the injection of clysters of mephitic air.
Nourishing clysters are directed; but it is to be feared that these will renew the looseness, and that this amiable youth will quickly sink under his disorder[22].
The air-clysters were discontinued, as his stools were not offensive, and his Abdomen less distended.
It not only voids hot, choleric, and other offensive humours, but eases the pains and torments of the belly coming thereby; and are therefore used in all clysters conducing to those purposes.
The leaves also, or the seed boiled, is good to be used in clysters to ease the pains of the stone.
Galen saith, that being applied in manner of a poultice to any swelling or inflammation, it digests the swelling, and allays the inflammation, and is therefore given in clysters to evacuate from the belly offensive humours.
Diarrhoea must be resisted by means of diet and clysters (enemas) with rice-water, if necessary; the enemas must be given cautiously.
Packs, interchanged with baths, clysters or enemas which subdue fever, alternated with ablutions, and similar methods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clysters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
