Cod-Liver Oil: in the sinking at the epigastrium in the aged without intestinal irritation.
Leeches: to epigastriumif tender, especially in malarial vomiting.
Morphine: hypodermically injected in the epigastrium in persistent seasickness.
Hot epithems to the epigastrium are probably of some use, and besides this the temperature of the body should be carefully kept up by hot bottles to the feet, hot tins to the epigastrium, etc.
In such cases there is not only spinal tenderness, but very usually also a well-marked tenderness in the epigastrium and the left hypochondrium, the trepied hysterique of Briquet.
Pressure on the epigastrium inhibited the abdominal movement, but was accompanied by immediate renewal of the neighing, whereas with the relief of the pressure the sequence of events was inverted.
Some keep their tongue firmly bitten between the teeth; others cram their mouth with pebbles, or compress their epigastrium tightly, under the impression that it is the source of their voice.
The normal folds of the abdominal wall are very deeply marked, and at the level of the groins, the epigastrium and the pubis, there are deep folds.
Some tenderness was present in theepigastrium and towards the spleen.
The epigastrium was somewhat tender, but there were no marked symptoms.
In one such case a blow upon the epigastrium was, according to the patient, followed by the vomiting of a considerable amount of blood.
He cannot explain the sensations which these obnoxious colors produce except by saying that it is like the deadly feeling from a blow on the epigastrium (pit of the stomach).
In one case, in which there was an accumulation of feces in the sigmoid flexure, the large intestine presented itself as two immense cylinders lying side by side, extending from the epigastrium to the pelvis.
The abnormal sensations in the epigastrium are weight and pressure, attended at times by praecordial oppression and discomfort.
The epigastrium is either puffed out like a ball, or, as is more frequently the case, retracted, with tension of the abdominal walls.
According to Peter,[104] the surface temperature of the epigastrium is elevated in gastric ulcer, but not in nervous gastralgia.
The application of a few leeches over the epigastrium has been highly recommended, but this should be done without much loss of blood.
Counter-irritation over theepigastrium and right hypochondrium by a blister or iodine is of direct service.
The attack begins with colic or continuous {1119} deep-seated pain, starting in the epigastrium and extending toward the right shoulder or the back, and quickly becoming very intense.
Cunningham prefaces the treatment by a sinapism to the epigastrium and half a drachm of the tincture of opium.
In eight hours after taking the dose, she had strangury and vomiting, and the pain in the epigastrium was intense.
It commonly extends throughout the epigastrium and both hypochondria, but may be present on one or the other side, while, on the other hand, there may be general abdominal soreness.
Abdominal pain, tenderness in the epigastrium and hypochondria, and demonstrable enlargement of the liver and spleen are almost invariable.
They may consist externally of rubefacient and aromatic applications to the epigastrium (especially the spice poultice); and it is claimed that a hypodermic injection of morphia in this part is very efficient.
External applications to the epigastrium usually afford some relief to nausea at any stage of yellow fever.
Abdominal pain and tenderness in the epigastrium and hypochondria are constant symptoms, but when diarrhoea is marked there are apt also to be griping {406} pains and tenderness in the lower segment of the abdomen.
Again, in cases where the vomiting and epigastric distress were severe and obstinate the application of a blister three inches square to the epigastrium is to be recommended.
Autenreith[19] recommends tartar emetic to the epigastrium till vesicles appear and even ulcerate.
The application of pounded ice in a bladder to the epigastriumis a measure of an analogous sort, and is sometimes as efficient as generally it is soothing.
Of irritants little can be said that is favorable, but the combined irritant and anæsthetic action of chloroform is useful, and morphia should be applied to the epigastrium as well as given hypodermically.
There is a record early in this century of a child of five who was run over across the epigastrium by a heavy two-wheeled cart, but recovered without any bad symptoms.
Great increase in the size of the liver in most of the cases, and of the spleen in many, was observed, and all complained of pain in the epigastrium and in the hypochondria.
He stated that the tumour in the epigastrium began about the same time as the yellowness of the skin.
The subject has had violent blows in the regions of the epigastriumand abdomen; the vomiting blood is the necessary consequence of some organic injury to the viscera.
I worked as long as I could, and--" "The epigastrium must be very painful.
This distress in the epigastrium was terrible on the nervous system, and rendered the mind almost impotent and powerless for the time it lasted.
By that time my diarrhoea had ceased, and my stomach about the region of the epigastrium seemed drawn together as tightly as if tied in a knot.
The region "round about" my epigastrium was in a state of communistic insurrection and rebellion.
I work as much as I can, and I--" "The epigastrium must be painful?
A blister was applied to the epigastrium on the 15th of February, seven days after her admission.
The application of scarified and dry cups to the epigastrium and head, when there existed pain in these regions, was often resorted to, and afforded much relief.
In conjunction with general and local bleeding, fomentations were had recourse to in almost every case, and applied to the epigastrium in the form of poultices, or flannels wrung out of warm emollient decoctions.
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