. A text-book of practical therapeutics, with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis . he various concentrated liquid predigestedfoods, dissolved in three ounces of warm normal salt solution intro-duced slowly through a soft catheter inserted into the rectum adistance of two or three inches. 11. This form of treatment cannot supplant the operative treatmentof acute appendicitis, but it can and should be used to reduce the mor-tality by changing the class of cases in which the mortality is greatestinto another class in wh
. A text-book of practical therapeutics, with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis . he various concentrated liquid predigestedfoods, dissolved in three ounces of warm normal salt solution intro-duced slowly through a soft catheter inserted into the rectum adistance of two or three inches. 11. This form of treatment cannot supplant the operative treatmentof acute appendicitis, but it can and should be used to reduce the mor-tality by changing the class of cases in which the mortality is greatestinto another class in which the mortality is very small after this plan the author would add the use of normal saline solutionby hypodermoclysis, with the object of allaying thirst and flushing thekidneys. ,4 If attacks of appendicitis are recurrent, the appendix should alwaysbe removed in an interval of quiescence. (See article on Peritonitis.) ASPHYXIA. When practising artificial respiration in cases of asphyxia Sylves-ters method should always be employed. This consists of laying thepatient on some hard, flat surface, kneeling above his head, and then, Fig. Sylvesters method of artificial respiration. First movement: the patients arms are placed atright angles to the trunk, the elbows resting on the floor, to expand or inflate the chest. after grasping the arms at the elbows, bringing them upward andoutward, so that they follow the plane on which the body is movement causes expansion of the chest, or inspiration. After ASPHYXIA. 577 a moments pause the arms are lifted up and brought toward oneanother, and then, while still approximated, pushed down to theiroriginal position upon the floating ribs, upon which they are last movement drives out the air from the chest, or causes expi- Fig. 103.
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