There is no known way of treating these animals, though doubtless purgatives would be beneficial.
Strong purgatives and diuretics are to be especially avoided, unless it is in the very last days of gestation in very plethoric cows.
In such cases bleeding should be resorted to immediately, and when the power of swallowing is not lost purgatives should be administered.
Powerful purgatives or diuretics should never be administered to the pregnant cow.
If the constipation has lasted long, repeated small doses of purgatives are better than a single large dose.
It is desirable to give the animals purgatives like Epsom salt and, of course, to remove them from fields where this plant is abundant.
When jaundice exists we must endeavor to rid the system of the excess of bile, and this is best accomplished by giving purgatives that act upon the liver.
Relief is afforded by the use of purgatives that render the feces soft and thin and thus enable them to pass the obstruction, but in time the contracted place is liable to close so far that passage is impossible and the horse will die.
Laminitis from the effects of purgativescan scarcely be guarded against.
Characterized by persistent constipation; frequently the strongest purgatives have no effect whatever on the movement of the bowels.
Nothing seemed to benefit him, and purgatives only augmented his trouble.
After a week's treatment with salinepurgatives the discoloration was much less, but the patient still had articular pains, for which alkalies were prescribed; she did not again attend.
Ferdinandus mentions a case of a young man of twenty-four who, after having been seized with insensibility of the whole body with the exception of the head, was cured by purgatives and other remedies.
Podophyllin or Podophyllum: very useful, especially in biliousness: ten drops of tincture at night alone, or the resin along with otherpurgatives in pill, especially when stools are dark.
He was abstemious, and had none of those temptations to sensual excess which fill up a man's time first with indulgence and then with the process of getting well from its effects.
Injections should always be given when purgativesare tardy in their operation.
Some one of the abovepurgatives should be given after the bloat has subsided, and careful feeding for some days must be observed.
Then bed the animal in dry straw and cover with blankets, and assist the purgatives with warm gruels, followed by laxative provender till well.
At first, attempts must be made to expel the parasites from the intestines by purgatives and anthelmintics.
Practically, it is important to inform the persons most interested that an active “drench” may be serviceable in dislodging the free intestinal worms, but the administration of purgatives must not be persevered in.
Sir Nigel, "and by the help of St. George and Our Lady, it will be a very strange thing if our black-headed friend does not himself swing thence ere he be many hours older.
It is not very far to Cahors, for surely I see the cathedral towers against the sky-line; but I have heard much of this Roger Clubfoot, and the more I hear the less do I wish to look upon his face.
It is shame and sin to see two Christian Englishmen turn swords against each other like the frenzied bloodthirsty paynim.
On either side the seamen whom Sir Nigel had chosen for the purpose had cast their anchors over the side of the galleys, so that the three vessels, locked in an iron grip, lurched heavily forward upon the swell.
I have two Englishmen of this class in my train, who are at this instant, I make little doubt, as full of your wine as any cask in your cellar.
It did not seem to him from what he could see of it to be such a very wicked place after all.
I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver.
On the other hand, it would be a very grievous thing that you, the Prince of England and the flower of knighthood, should make a vow, whether in ignorance or no, and fail to bring it to fulfilment.
Already the thrusts were less fierce, the foot less ready, although there was no abatement of the spirit in the steady gray eyes.
Analogous preparations are known, such as the “vital essence of Augsburg” which is a mixture of purgatives and resins.
More use can be made of simple purgatives which do not kill the microbes but eliminate them by the normal channel.
But although the diarrhœa induced by purgatives generally has such a result, spontaneous diarrhœas such as those of typhoid fever and of intestinal tuberculosis are associated with increased putrefaction.
Purgatives and bleeding ought, however, never to be used as remedies against toothache; for, far from doing good, they often do harm.
He, too, made the administration of purgativesor bloodletting precede the extraction of a tooth.
In medicine, purgatives which act in a gentle manner, and have a soothing effect.
To guard against a return of the attack light and easily digestible food should be administered every four or five hours, and occasional mild purgatives should be given.
As an expectorant, it should not be administered until the inflammatory symptoms have been subdued by purgatives or bleeding.
The treatment of rheumatism consists in the administration of purgatives and diaphoretics or sudorifics, accompanied by tonics, as bark, quinine, &c.
The above are the most tasteless and pleasant purgatives of an active character known.
In prescribing purgatives regard should be had to the particular portion of the alimentary canal on which we desire more immediately to act, as well as to the manner in which the medicine effects its purpose.
Sugar-candy and olive oil are both good purgatives for getting rid of the internal fat or grease.
Purgatives act with more energy and produce several discharges which are of a more liquid character and more copious than the former.
Venesection and harsh purgatives are contra-indicated, and the physician who persists in their employment kills his patient.
Injections may be employed to relieve constipation, butpurgatives should be avoided.
Cholagogues are those purgatives which act upon the liver, stimulating its functions.
Alvarez at the California Medical Society, Del Monte, 1918,--both condemning the use of purgatives as a routine measure before operations.
Uninformed writers of newspaper articles on the care of the body, or purveyors of purgatives or apparatus for internal baths are fond of dilating on the "foulness of the colon" as a leading cause of disease.
Even in emergencies, the use of purgatives as a routine measure is happily decreasing year by year.
For many years I have deplored the use of purgatives before and after operations.
In our treatment of the horse we have got rid of a great proportion of the destructive urine-balls and drastic purgatives of the farrier.
Purgatives are always injurious at the commencement of the disease.
Purgatives should never be given when there is an irritable state of the bowels.
Purgatives never act so well upon persons accustomed to take them as upon those who are not, therefore it is better to change the form of purgative from pill to potion, powder to draught, or aromatic to saline.
Purgatives Purgatives are medicines that promote the evacuation of the bowels, such as senna, aloes, jalap, salts.
Combined with senna, it increases its purgative properties; and it is also used to correct the nausea produced by squills, and the irritating effects of drastic purgatives and mezereon.
Persons of a phlegmatic temperament bear stimulants and purgatives better than those of a sanguine temperament, therefore the latter require smaller doses.
Such purgatives as aloes and Glauber's salts are indicated at a very early stage in the disease.
The early feeding does it no good, and the purgatives it requires are injurious.
The patient must live low, her feet must be frequently bathed in hot water, and her bowels regularly opened either with salinepurgatives or enemas.
Another plan is to give about six grains of ipecac, and to repeat the dose several times, at intervals of an hour or less, in conjunction with purgatives and warm fomentations.
Those purgatives which were formerly gentle and benign are now changed for emetics and kermes.
He was averse to the employment of violent remedies and the excessive use of emetics and purgatives so much favoured by his fellow-practitioners.
Their physicians recommended the use of senna, tamarinds, and cassia in place of the violent purgatives used by the Greek physicians, and a number of new plants were introduced by Rhazes from India, Persia, and Syria.
Purgatives and diuretics are given by another, and some will be found ready to empty the whole pharmacopoeia into the poor sufferer's stomach if he can be got to open his mouth wide enough.
Purgatives have been used in all ages in the treatment of this disease, because it was thought to be a fever.
There are certain cases in which purgatives are alleged to be of use, viz.
Before the time of purgativesdepletion was employed.
Rest must be reckoned on, especially if the patient has been using purgatives freely.
In serious cases of dilatation, rest in bed, purgativesand cardiac tonics may be required.
The purgatives must not be given on those days when the sick animal is bled, and the doses must vary with the effects they produce.
The purgatives must be non-stimulating; and emetics, freely diluted, for instance, will be very serviceable.
The purgatives employed consisted of a decoction of senna, mixed with prune juice, with a little rhubarb or fresh linseed oil, infused in their drink, or applied as a clyster in warm water slightly salted.
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