. A manual of gynæcology and pelvic surgery, for students and practitioners. l distension of the colon by the use ofthe rectal tube, daily enemas, or colon lavage if paralytic ileusthreatens. Whether local applications to the abdomen haveany influence over the course of the disease is open to some ques-tion, but that they reheve pain is undoubted. An ice-bagover the right iliac fossa sometimes renders the use of opiatesunnecessary, and it should be avoided before a diagnosis ismade, for the same reason, and used after diagnosis, also for the CHRONIC -AJTEXDICITIS 539 same reason. Poultices agr
. A manual of gynæcology and pelvic surgery, for students and practitioners. l distension of the colon by the use ofthe rectal tube, daily enemas, or colon lavage if paralytic ileusthreatens. Whether local applications to the abdomen haveany influence over the course of the disease is open to some ques-tion, but that they reheve pain is undoubted. An ice-bagover the right iliac fossa sometimes renders the use of opiatesunnecessary, and it should be avoided before a diagnosis ismade, for the same reason, and used after diagnosis, also for the CHRONIC -AJTEXDICITIS 539 same reason. Poultices agree better with some patients, butthey are mussy and disagreeable and the same eJBfect can beobtained by the use of flannel wrung out of hot water and kepthot with the hot-water bag or electric pad. Such are the palliative measures which will assist nature tobattle successfully with the disease when surgery is deferredor declined. CHRONIC APPENDICITIS The term chronic appendicitis is used in a very loose fashionand, as popularly understood, covers not only true hyperplasia.
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