A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine . tenesmus is obviated by administering, a short time before theenema, an opium suppository of one-half grain of the extract. A patientin bed can manage with 1800 calories; in rectal alimentation by milkonly 300 calories are absorbed; enemata of 10 per cent, dextrose, bythe drop method, increase the nutrition and lessen the acidosis of starva-tion. Peptonized milk is far inferior to milk pancreatized for twenty-fourhours, in which amino-acids abound. Among 1000 gastric ulcers, parotitisdeveloped in per cent, on the strictest d
A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine . tenesmus is obviated by administering, a short time before theenema, an opium suppository of one-half grain of the extract. A patientin bed can manage with 1800 calories; in rectal alimentation by milkonly 300 calories are absorbed; enemata of 10 per cent, dextrose, bythe drop method, increase the nutrition and lessen the acidosis of starva-tion. Peptonized milk is far inferior to milk pancreatized for twenty-fourhours, in which amino-acids abound. Among 1000 gastric ulcers, parotitisdeveloped in per cent, on the strictest diet, but only in per cent,when water was given by mouth (Rolleston and Oliver). Water may begiven by rectum or food by the duodenal tube. 3. Pain.—Rest of the stomach relieves pain in most cases;, smalldoses of opium or atropine by rectum, may bo given, but there is dangerof the habit. 4. Superacidity.—Treatment should be initiated after one week ofgastric rest. Massive doses of sod. bicarbonate 5ss-j in a starch wafer, PLATE XIV Fig. 1 Fig. 2.
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