When they are introduced into the intestines, we speak of giving enemata (enema is the singular).
Emollient (soothing) enemata for soothing irritated and painful mucous membrane; starch and drugs are also used.
If these enemata fail it will be necessary to use purgative enemata.
Antispasmodic enemata to relieve flatulence such as the turpentine enemata.
Purgatives and enemataused often and for a long time.
Ice water enemata (injections in bowel) may also be employed.
After a nutritive enemata the patient should lie quietly on his back for twenty or thirty minutes.
Food given by enemata should be very nourishing and concentrated.
Astringent enematato check bleeding and diarrhea, like hot water, ice water, solution of alum or nitrate of silver.
If constipation attended with colic be the character of the affection, small quantities of oil and turpentine in connexion with warm enemata will be the proper remedies.
Even this must not be given in too large quantities, and the effect must be assisted by a repetition of the enemata every fifth or sixth hour.
Bouvard, physician to Louis XIII, applied two hundred and twenty enemata to this monarch in the course of six months.
Pliny recorded the fact that "the use of clysters or enemata was first taught by the stork, which may be observed to inject water into its bowels by means of its long beak.
The length of time during which the enemata and the douche are to be used, whether months or years, will depend on the character of the disease that made its use necessary.
I wish the enemata did have power to weaken that part of the bowel involved in disease.
The number of substances employed in the preparation of enematais very great.
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 occasional use of aperient and emollient enemata may be had recourse to; but their habitual administration, as well as that of purgative medicines generally, by the mouth, is not to be recommended.
Turpentine Oil: as enemata and embrocations to spine during paroxysms.
Purgative enemata can do little good: if in small quantity, they empty only the rectum; if large, they may reach the strangulated part, but will scarcely have the effect of extricating it.
Afterwards copious evacuation is to be procured by enemata or gentle laxatives.
Afterwards large mild enemata are to be administered, and, after some hours, purgatives, so as to procure copious and free evacuation of the bowels.
Some practitioners have used mercurial frictions along the spine, or on other parts of the surface; while others administer stimulants, and enemata with tobacco and turpentine.
Suppositories and enemata are at the same time employed; the latter to clear out the lower bowels, the former to allay the irritation which accompanies the disease, and which may be increased temporarily by the bougies.
Simple enemataof warm water or soap and water will often suffice.
In cases of intense local inflammation and in general peritonitis enematashould alone be employed for the removal of constipation.
When, on the contrary, constipation exists, it is still necessary to avoid the use of drastic cathartics; indeed, even mild laxatives should be given by the mouth only after enemata have failed to produce a movement of the bowel.
When these fail, it may sometimes be relieved by a prescription containing sulphuric acid and morphia, and at others by enemata of from twenty to thirty drops of laudanum in warm water.
The use of hot and stimulating rectal enemata is very important.
A few doses of a saline laxative should be given to render the contents of the bowels more fluid, and the enemata repeated until a sufficient evacuation has been effected.
The internal use of turpentine, circular friction upon the abdomen, and enemata of Mist.
When caused by the presence of seat-worms, they must be dislodged by purgatives and enemata of quassia or of one composed of one part of carbolic acid to six parts of sweet oil, or of turpentine and flaxseed tea.
When constipation is not relieved by washing out the stomach, enemata should be employed.
D'Arpene of Elba has suggested enemata of gastric juice.
Nourishing enemata should be administered, as in all affections where it becomes impracticable to sustain the patient by way of the mouth.
It has been attempted while the patient was in a warm bath or under chloroform or while taking large enemata of warm water.
When obstruction is imminent nutrientenemata afford the most efficient means of administering nourishment.
Of course a purgative must sometimes be given if enemata fail, but the least irritating one should be selected.
Anodynes--preferably chloroform--and carminatives should be administered by the mouth, and enemata containing turpentine or asafoetida injected into the rectum.
If it does not act in the course of two or three hours, a full dose of castor oil may be given, and, if necessary to aid the action of this, enemata may be employed.
Nutritious and peptonized enemata may be of service in some cases.
The bowels are to be kept soluble by enemata or appropriate medicines, and the diet should be selected so as to avoid constipation and flatulence.
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