Intestinal irrigation

The privilege of raising objections belongs to the ignorant as well as to the intelligent. But the objector is under as great obligations to state his reasons as the advocate.

Method is imperative in this strenuous life of ours. Nature in her universal operations seems to sanction a uniform system in our daily conduct. Had we a regular time for doing...

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, Celsus, Galen, and other writers in the early times, described fistula as a disease; and, naturally enough, through the influence of heredit...

In treating chronic ulcerative inflammation of the anus, rectum, sigmoid flexure, etc., it is well to take advantage of every really practical device to which one may have acces...

Before the history of medicine and surgery began, man suffered at his hinder parts as well as at other parts of his organism. Bodily ills are as old as the human race, and the f...

The author has searched the markets of the world for suitable apparatus for intestinal irrigation, so that he, as a specialist in this line and in anal and rectal diseases, coul...

Is there any human being so ignorant that he cannot understand that when food stuffs in the gastro-intestinal canal ferment and putrefy they thereby generate toxic (poisonous) g...

A society leader, in speaking of her ills to a woman friend, said: “I am ‘lousy’ with uric acid.” From infancy to old age, mankind is more or less filled with uric acid and othe...

We, all of us, like to use things; indulgence is enjoyable, but it generally ends with the day. Few of us “take thought of the morrow.” Neglecting, as we do, the _instruments_ o...

When an affliction is seemingly universal it is reasonable to conclude that it springs from universal conditions. Proctitis, the most widespread disease of civilized man, origin...

The vent of a crater indicates the convulsive and destructive changes that have taken place within; and, very often, the vent of the gastro-enteric sewer gives like evidence of...

Should channels, of varying length and numbers, form early in the development of proctitis, the sufferer is usually found to be free from piles, or hemorrhoids, for the reason t...

Lavage is a term restricted to irrigation of the stomach--a term that has become more or less popular of late with physicians, but is not so popular with those who have to swall...

The small intestine is that portion of the alimentary canal which begins at the stomach and ends at the large intestine. Its usual length is twenty feet. The diameter, which at...

At the close of my last chapter I referred to the ever-recurring problem of public baths. Annually its agitation is renewed in lectures and newspapers; public bathing is voted w...

In the year 1496 an Italian, Gatenaria, invented an appliance for taking an enema; since that time depuratory instruments have had more or less vogue in all civilized countries....

I speak from clinical observation with the use of various rectal and colon specula, of which I have over fifty. I have watched the progress of cases that were using the enema tw...

The habits of people in general do not seem so bad when one considers the average individual’s limitations as to knowledge and thought. The fact is that most people don’t know,...

A satisfactory appliance for taking an enema should possess the following features: capacity, adaptability, convenience, cleanliness, durability, and sufficient external anal an...

Chronic mucous colitis ought to mean inflammation of the ascending, transverse, or descending colon. The length of the rectum varies from five to eight inches, and the average l...

Water at a temperature of from 120 to 135 or more degrees is an excellent antiseptic if properly applied to diseased tissue. Its anti-toxic, soothing, and healing properties, ho...

In the previous chapters attention was called especially to the lower portion of the rectum and the anus. In this chapter we will consider the sigmoid flexure, which, when disea...

The manufacturers of various compounds advertised in our daily newspapers and on the billboards usually select very common ailments or symptoms on which to exploit the merits of...

The International Congress on School Hygiene ended its fourth meeting at Buffalo recently to meet two years hence in Brussels. In the interim the Board of Education in this city...

mucus auto-intoxication, and its symptoms ought to be differentiated from those of fecal auto-intoxication. This mucus exudate has an intensely irritating effect on the nervous...

After proctitis has continued for many years it will give rise to painful inflammatory and ulcerative processes at the external anal vent and in the adjoining tissues. The anal...

I am indebted to Dr. Caldwell, of New York, at whose laboratory my patients were radiographed for the very excellent illustrations; and also to Dr. Albright of Philadelphia, for...