Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . butshould be simply swallowed as one would swallow food ordrink. One end of the tube being passed into the mouth andwell back into the throat, the patient makes movements ofswallowing, while the attendant gently urges the tube alonginto the stomach. Water at about the temperature of thebody is poured in either with or without the addition of com-mon salt and soda in the proportion of a teaspoonful of eachto a quart of water.
Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . butshould be simply swallowed as one would swallow food ordrink. One end of the tube being passed into the mouth andwell back into the throat, the patient makes movements ofswallowing, while the attendant gently urges the tube alonginto the stomach. Water at about the temperature of thebody is poured in either with or without the addition of com-mon salt and soda in the proportion of a teaspoonful of eachto a quart of water. A powder consisting of three parts of bicarbonate of soda,one part of sodium sulphide, and one part of chloride ofsodium may be advantageously used in cleansing the one teaspoonful of this powder to each pint of a pint or so of water has been poured into the stomach,the outer end of the tube is ? lowered, and by coughing orsimilar movements the contents of the stomach are forcedthrough the tube into some proper receptacle. The opera-tion should be repeated until the water is clear. In withdrawing the tube it should be pinched tightly be-. Fig. 2i8. GASTRIC LAVAGE (p. 884). Fig. 219. GASTRIC LAVAGE—Emptyingthe Stomach (p. 884).
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