. Materia medica : pharmacology, therapeutics and prescription writing for students and practitioners. , and that these aremuch more readily softened by water. 2. Castile soap (sapo) is nearly pure sodium oleate. It ismildly irritant to mucous membranes, hence is laxative. Soap-suds enemata may be made of Castile soap, or if a stronger actionis desired, of laundry soap, which contains free alkali and is moreirritating. 3. Glycerin (glycerinum), though slightly laxative when ad-ministered by mouth, is chiefly used in the form of the glycerinsuppository (suppositorium glycerini), or as a mildly
. Materia medica : pharmacology, therapeutics and prescription writing for students and practitioners. , and that these aremuch more readily softened by water. 2. Castile soap (sapo) is nearly pure sodium oleate. It ismildly irritant to mucous membranes, hence is laxative. Soap-suds enemata may be made of Castile soap, or if a stronger actionis desired, of laundry soap, which contains free alkali and is moreirritating. 3. Glycerin (glycerinum), though slightly laxative when ad-ministered by mouth, is chiefly used in the form of the glycerinsuppository (suppositorium glycerini), or as a mildly irritatingaddition to an ordinary enema. Hertz says it is irritant to themucous membrane of the anal canal, but not to that of therectum. 4. Castor Oil (Oleum Ricinf).—This oil is saponified in thesmall intestines to form glycerin and sodium ricinoleate, a soapwhich is much more irritant than Castile soap to the intestinalmucous membrane. Its great advantages are its rapidity ofaction, its thoroughness, and its comparative freedom fromirritative griping, After a dose of %-\ ounce (15-30 ) it. Fig. 3.—The abdomen of this patient was greatly distended with gas, whichseemed as if in his stomach, though unrelieved by belching. After a rectal injectionof bismuth this .v-ray picture was taken, the patient being in the standing light areas in the bowel are gas.
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