Enemata

During the period of coma the patient was kept warm and toxic materials eliminated from the bowel by purgation and repeated enemata. ❋ Unknown (1965)

While these tests were being carried out, the large bowel was evacuated with copious enemata. ❋ Unknown (1965)

He could find nothing to account for these unless it were the instruments for giving enemata, which had been used in two of the former cases and were employed by these patients. ❋ Various (N/A)

A regimen that is nutritive and at the same time laxative is essential and in some cases cathartics and enemata are necessary. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

If marked distress is present, morphin is given and where there is much rise of temperature, cold drinking water is offered in abundance and catharsis is enhanced by enemata. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

He speaks more favourably of the introduction of food into the stomach by a silver tube; and he strongly recommends the use of nutritive enemata. ❋ Various (N/A)

Another is that they will form the dreadful habit of using the enemata. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Bouvard, physician to Louis XIII, applied two hundred and twenty enemata to this monarch in the course of six months. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

His fever, which was marked by daily intermissions for three days, subsided upon the administration of cathartics and enemata. ❋ J. H. Gardiner (N/A)

Pliny recorded the fact that "the use of clysters or enemata was first taught by the stork, which may be observed to inject water into its bowels by means of its long beak." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The bowels are to be kept soluble by enemata or appropriate medicines, and the diet should be selected so as to avoid constipation and flatulence. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)

I wish the enemata did have power to weaken that part of the bowel involved in disease. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Experience brought much of the wisdom we call empirical, and the records, extending for thousands of years, show that the Egyptians employed emetics, purgatives, enemata, diuretics, diaphoretics and even bleeding. ❋ Unknown (1921)

The experiments of nature made clear to him the relation of cause and effect, but it is not likely, as Pliny suggests, that he picked up his earliest knowledge from the observation of certain practices in animals, as the natural phlebotomy of the plethoric hippopotamus, or the use of emetics from the dog, or the use of enemata from the ibis. ❋ Unknown (1921)

He was ingeniously fed by esophageal tubes and rectal enemata; in three weeks speech and deglutition were restored. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Abstinence, or rather anorexia, is naturally associated with numerous diseases, particularly of the febrile type; but in all of these the patient is maintained by the use of nutrient enemata or by other means, and the abstinence is never complete. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Ice to the abdomen, calomel pushed to free purgation, a small fly-blister below the ensiform cartilage, nutritious enemata, with stimulants in the form of whiskey or champagne, and hypodermics of strychnine, give a more hopeful prospect than would operation. ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)