Procedure of introducing liquids into the rectum and colon via the anus.
1 Turpentine enemata for distention may be given according to the following formula:
2 Purgatives and enemata used often and for a long time.
3 Food given by enemata should be very nourishing and concentrated.
4 Stimulating enemata , like hot water, hot strong coffee, hot whisky and water, salt water.
5 When this is impracticable, nutrient enemata are called for.
6 Ice water enemata (injections in bowel) may also be employed.
7 After a nutritive enemata the patient should lie quietly on his back for twenty or thirty minutes.
8 He was ingeniously fed by esophageal tubes and rectal enemata ; in three weeks speech and deglutition were restored.
9 Emollient (soothing) enemata for soothing irritated and painful mucous membrane; starch and drugs are also used.
10 When they are introduced into the intestines, we speak of giving enemata (enema is the singular).
11 His fever, which was marked by daily intermissions for three days, subsided upon the administration of cathartics and enemata .
12 Astringent enemata to check bleeding and diarrhea, like hot water, ice water, solution of alum or nitrate of silver.
13 A regimen that is nutritive and at the same time laxative is essential and in some cases cathartics and enemata are necessary.
14 Nutritive Enemata . - Food is given by the bowel when the stomach cannot retain it.
15 ENEMATA are given either high or low.
16 Salt Enemata . - Two teaspoonfuls to one quart of hot water is mildly stimulating; one-halfto one ounce of brandy or whisky may be added.
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