Intestinal irrigation : $b why, how and when to flush the colonJamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
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Intestinal irrigation : $b why, how and when to flush the colon
Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
Enema; Intestines -- Diseases
For a short time at the start it is, perhaps, best to confine one’s
self to two enemas, especially if fairly successful with the attempt
at a thorough cleansing after breakfast and before retiring at night.
The sleep will be sounder and the patient will be more apt to rise
refreshed with a clean tongue and cheerful spirits. So much will this
before-bed enema do for him that he may soon find it unnecessary to
take the preliminary injection on rising, inasmuch as fermentation
and gas will no longer trouble him. But individual experience and
intelligence must dictate the course in this respect. Let the patient
study himself and note the demands of his system. It may even be,
indeed it is frequently the case, that a patient requires several
enemas during the day. When abnormality has set in, it gives rise to
all sorts of freak requirements, and the victim must, for a time,
accede to its whims.
Quite frequently, owing to various causes, the feces will descend into
the rectum, which is properly a conduit, not a receptacle. While there
it occasions much nervous irritation of the whole system and makes
its victim desperate. It is wise, under such a condition, to take
slight injections for relief. Never allow any foulness to accumulate.
Establish the _habit_ of internal cleanliness. The new sense of bodily
purity will be so great that it can never be outgrown.
Nature easily accommodates herself to habits, whatever they be--normal
or abnormal, wholesome or unwholesome, cleanly or uncleanly; and the
train of consequences will be accordingly good or evil. My point may
be easily illustrated by the habits of “civilized” man in regard
to bathing. Many persons never take an external bath, and are not
conscious of any bodily discomfort arising from the omission of this
presumably necessary practice. As the summer approaches, another batch
of “civilizees,” so fortunate as to be within convenient distance of a
pond, lake, river, or ocean, begin to feel the real need of a “dip,”
and are uncomfortable until they get it. This is surely a sign that the
spirit of cleanliness is beginning to stir in the breast of humanity.
Then there is another contingent that bathe once a week, and should
their regular routine in this respect be interfered with they would at
once feel unclean--nay, even dirty, and, sometimes, “nasty.” Others,
again, bathe twice or thrice weekly, and this quota of the human
race feels very uncomfortable and foul when hindered for a week from
following this routine; indeed, such bathers often imagine that a dire
illness is impending. Finally, the “salt of the earth” take an external
bath once or twice a day, and, should _their_ routine be suspended for
twenty-four hours, visions of madness or suicide begin to haunt them
until relieved by soap and hot water, or the cold plunge, as their
habits require.
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