Again, fear of accident should prevent patients from using the closet when labor is progressing rapidly, for an inclination to empty the bladder or the rectum often signifies that birth is about to take place.
Before the bath an enema of soap-suds should be taken to clear the rectum of material which otherwise might be expelled during the birth and contaminate the field of delivery.
Using a cup or two of water to induce a bowel movement may eventually cause dependency, will not strengthen the colon and may after years of this practice, result in distention and enlargement of the rectum or sigmoid colon.
The result is constant stretching of the rectum without sufficient fluid to enter the descending colon.
In fact these are the correct names given for the parts of the colon: Ascending, Descending and Transverse Colon along with the Sigmoid Colon or Rectum at the exit end.
The muscles in the colon only contract when they are stretched, so it is the volume of the fecal matter stretching the large intestine that triggers the muscles to push the waste material along toward the rectum and anus.
The rectum is surprisingly sensitive to heat and you will flinch at temperatures only a degree or two higher than 98 Fahrenheit.
Place the patient in a recumbent position, and let the rectum instrument, P.
Where there is prolapsus ani, the sponge-roll, placed at the anus, may be used instead of the rectum instrument, particularly for the first few treatments.
The thermometer should be left in the rectum for two minutes, and in the groin for five minutes.
The heavier part is the upper part, and that part is held in place partly by resting on the rectum behind, and the bladder in front.
The best place to take the temperature in a child is the rectum and the next best place is in the groin.
The temperature will always be from a half to a full degree higher in the rectum than in the groin.
Of or pertaining to both the rectumand the uterus.
Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the bladder.
Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina.
The rectum is the terminal part of the large intestines, and extends from the termination of the sigmoid flexure to the anus.
The adult rectumin male is from four to six inches in length, and in the female is from three to five inches in length.
The uterus is situated in the pelvic cavity between the rectum and the bladder, and is held in position by the lateral and round ligaments on each side.
The lower part of the rectum becomes inverted, and descends after every stool chiefly in children; and thus stimulates the sphincter ani like any other extraneous body.
Secretion of mucus of the rectumis increased by aloe internally, by various clysters and suppositories externally.
The sphincter of the rectum becomes painful or inflamed from the association of its sensitive motions with those of the sphincter of the bladder, when the latter is stimulated into violent pain or inflammation by a stone.
Aloe given internally seems to act chiefly on the rectum and, spincter ani, producing tenesmus and piles.
The mucus of the rectum by aloe internally, by clysters and suppositories externally.
An increased discharge of mucus from the rectum frequently mistaken for matter; is said to continue a few weeks, and recur like the bleeding piles; and to obey lunar influence.
Aloes stimulate the rectum internally mixed with the circulating blood; and sea-salt by injection externally.
Again she said the gauze had been left in the rectum too long and that the rectum was full of wind.
There is no sight more curious for those who are commencing microscopical studies, than the examination of the contents of the rectum of these Batrachians.
The Ascaris nigro-venosa of the frog lives sometimes in the lungs, at others in the rectum or quite out of the body in damp earth.
The rectum of frogs is always literally full of Opalinae which swarm in this cavity, like ants in their ant-hill, and doubtless live on the contents of the intestine.
There have been found hitherto in the rectum of frogs, and in the different annelids, the Pachydrili, the Clitelides, the Lumbriculi, and the Enchytrei.
We know some which are hermaphrodite in the rectum or in damp earth, and whose young ones, having the sexes separate, live as parasites in the lungs.
On the plate of William Penn we see a motto most fitting for the character he sustained, Dum clavum rectum teneam--“While I hold to glory, let me hold to right.
This is not the complete motto of the family of Penn of Stoke Pogis; it should be, Dum clarum rectum taneam, which means, While I hold to glory let me hold to right.
There is little or no displacement, and the diagnosis is made by external manipulation and by examination through the rectum or vagina.
In the early stages there is retention of urine and constipation; later the bladder and rectum are paralysed, and there is incontinence.
Similarly, sensation in the rectumand anus may be retained although the control of the sphincters is lost.
In the treatment of these injuries the chief point is to give the œsophagus rest by feeding the patient entirely by the rectum or through an opening made in the stomach--gastrostomy.
The rectum becomes paralysed, and cystitis and pressure sores develop.
There is considerable difficulty in keeping the fragment in position, and if it projects towards the rectum it should be removed.
One died and the other I succeeded in saving by the breaking of the bound egg and washing out the rectum with a syringe.
In the Bird the rectum properly opens into the urinary cyst between the two blind sacs or cæca, and that indeed with a regular vulva, which is a sphincter muscle.
The Myxinæ crawl even into the rectum of other Fishes, and live therein like Entozoa.
The rectum appertains wholly and entirely to the sexual system, and especially to the uterus.
The rectum moreover lies behind the urinary cyst, like the gullet behind the trachea.
Thus a horse voids his excrement when its weight or bulk irritates the rectum or sphincter ani.
Of the organs lying on the reflected mantle-skirt, that which in the natural state lay nearest to the vas deferens on the right side of the median line of the roof of the branchial chamber is the rectum i', ending in the anus a.
In dextral Gastropods the only structure found on the topographically right side of the rectum is the genital duct.
The surface x of the mantle between the rectum and the gill-plume is thrown into folds which in many sea-snails (whelks or Buccinidae, &c.
Diagram of the two renal organs (nephridia), to show their relation to the rectum and to the pericardium.
The enlarged glandular structure of the walls of the rectum is frequent in the Pectinibranchia, as is also though not universal the gland marked y, next to the rectum.
After surrounding the small intestine it becomes the posterior layer of the mesentery and so again reaches the posterior abdominal wall, down which it runs until the rectum (R) is reached.
The oesophagus first, and afterwards the rectum unite with the archenteron (fig.
A, oe); and not long afterwards a posterior invagination to form the rectum (fig.
The proctodaeum forms the rectum and Malpighian bodies[169], and the stomodaeum the oesophagus and proventriculus.
The external opening of the rectum is placed at the extreme end of the flea’s body between the tergite and sternite of the tenth segment.
As long a portion of rectum as possible was left attached at the hinder end.
Both the contents of the rectum and the excrements of fleas taken from plague rats often contain abundant and actively virulent plague bacilli.
Finally, the undigested remains pass from the rectum in the form of very minute, round, almost black, tarry drops.
In many cases a drop of bright red blood is squirted from the rectum during the operation of feeding, and this appears to be a common practice among blood-sucking insects.
There are eyes at the fold of the mantle behind, and two small tentacles above the mouth; the heart and rectum being on the left side, and the generative opening at the base of the right ala.
Vulsella is allied to the Oyster, but more so to the Pectens, having a small cylindrical grooved foot and appended visceral mass, but no byssus; the rectum perforates the heart, and has a tentacle above its opening.
In the specimen examined, the spire of the shell was not solidified; the animal had a short proboscis, with rather bent subulate feelers, and eyes on the outside; it had also a rich purple secretion near the rectum on the right side.
It was discovered that the rectum was infested with ascarides, and, after the use of appropriate vermifuges and tonics, the patient entirely lost the uterine pains and also a tormenting pruritus vaginae, from which she suffered.
And I have seen what I do not doubt to have been a spasmodic condition of the rectum induced by peri-uterine neuralgia.
Neuralgia of the rectum has been carefully described by Mr. Ashton, but is probably not often seen except by practitioners who possess special opportunities of observing rectal diseases.
When there is much mucus, or if the rectum is inflamed, the soda or boric acid solution may be more soothing than the saline or soapsuds enema.
The tube should be allowed to remain in the rectum for fifteen or twenty minutes, then very gently withdrawn to prevent the liquid from being rejected.
The method of administering nourishment through the rectum is important.
The rectum should be cleansed by flushing with a soapsuds enema one hour before the nutrient enema is given.
If tuberculous patients then strain at stool, little abrasions of the mucous membrane of the rectum are caused in which tubercle bacilli find a favorable nidus.
Where the pain is much complained of the coal-tar anodynes are useful, but ice in the rectum or even suppositories of gluten, or of cocoa butter without any medication often prove useful.
Artificial emptying of the seminal vesicle by milking through the rectum will usually afford relief.
I have seen cancer of the rectum in a comparatively young woman treated as piles, without an examination, the development of the piles being attributed to the gastro-intestinal symptoms which were consequent upon the presence of the cancer.
Every physician has had the experience that after giving opium two or three times, either per rectum or hypodermically, almost anything can be given, provided the patient is persuaded that the drug is being given again.
Prostates are eminently individual organs, at least as individual as the human nose, and their projection into the rectum is dependent on the relations of other tissues in the neighborhood as well as on mere size.
Besides the physical conditions in the bladder, an accumulation of fecal material in the rectum may cause irritation of the seminal vesicles.
The colon was not above an inch in diameter, therectum was smaller still, but both appeared sound.
