Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . causedby the habitual mechanical emptying of the colon. In the application of the enema great care must be takento avoid the introduction of air into the bowels, as this maybe a source of severe colic pain. It is also important that thequantity of water employed should be only sufficient to accom-plish the purpose sought. The enema may be usefully employed in the cases offeeble patients as a preparation for surgical operatio
Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . causedby the habitual mechanical emptying of the colon. In the application of the enema great care must be takento avoid the introduction of air into the bowels, as this maybe a source of severe colic pain. It is also important that thequantity of water employed should be only sufficient to accom-plish the purpose sought. The enema may be usefully employed in the cases offeeble patients as a preparation for surgical operations. Insuch a case, the bowels should be first washed out, then twoor three pints of water at 100° should be slowly introducedinto the rectum, the purpose being to increase the volumeof the blood by absorption. The warm enema (98° to 100°) may be usefully employedas a means of introducing water into the system in cases inwhich for any reason the patient can not swallow liquids with-out injury, as after operations upon the stomach, in cases ofpersistent vomiting requiring complete gastric rest, in hemor-rJiage from the stomach, in typhoid fever with gastric dila-.
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