The therapeutical applications of hydrozone and glycozone . ranes. The nose and throat, therefore, were sprayed every twenty minutes for awhile with 66 HydrOzone and a twenty per cent, solution of the same used as a gargle every hour,until he could swallow water, which required forty hours. An enema of warm soap-water was given and repeated, which produced a soft stool; and he expressed himselfas feeling better. The spraying of nose and throat together with the gargle, also the enema,were continued every day. The inability of the patient to swallow made alimentationby the stomach impossible, t
The therapeutical applications of hydrozone and glycozone . ranes. The nose and throat, therefore, were sprayed every twenty minutes for awhile with 66 HydrOzone and a twenty per cent, solution of the same used as a gargle every hour,until he could swallow water, which required forty hours. An enema of warm soap-water was given and repeated, which produced a soft stool; and he expressed himselfas feeling better. The spraying of nose and throat together with the gargle, also the enema,were continued every day. The inability of the patient to swallow made alimentationby the stomach impossible, to say nothing of the incapacity of the stomach to performthe work of digestion. Boiled milk and warm soups were regularly given in smallquantities per rectum. On the morning of April 7 the whole lining membrane of the esophagus wasexpelled in the attempt to vomit. The membrane was neither broken nor perforated;but was turned inside out. I have preserved the spicimen in an alcoholic solution; andtake pleasure in presenting it herewith for your A B Photograph of the mucous membrane expelled from the esophagus of Ely. Cut A illustratesthe ragged surface of the membrane as torn from the muscular coat of the tube. CutB illustrates the smooth surface of the same membrane over which food was passed, themembrane being turned inside out, just as when expelled. The size of thes*. cuts is two-thirds that ofthe photograph of the esophagus. The cardiac end of the membrane being at the bottom of the cutin each case. There was some fever most of the time. The temperature running up as high as102° F. The pulse varied from normal up to 90, and a few times went up to 100. The general condition of the patient was fairly good—indeed much better thancould have been expected. There was little headache, but a lancinating pain in the left hypogastric regionwhich was greatly accelerated by coughing; and there was more or less tendency tocough during the first week. I might state here p
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