The Royal Road to Health; or, the Secret of Health Without DrugsTyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
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The Royal Road to Health; or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs
Tyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
Enema; Health; Health -- Popular works; Health promotion; Hygiene
Use the “Cascade” promptly on the first sign of an attack, injecting
all the water possible (at a temperature of not less than 102 Fahr.), so
as to reach the cæcum, where the trouble is located. If the attack is an
acute one, use the “Cascade” every third hour until relieved. If the
obstruction (which is usually present) does not give way, inject a pint
of hot water and a pint of castor oil mixed; but before injecting it
(with a bulb syringe) raise the patient’s hips several inches higher
than his head; then turn the patient on his right side, and stroke the
reverse way of the colon, applying a firm but gentle kneading movement
in the region of the appendix. This injection should be retained at
least half an hour--longer if necessary. If this does not break loose
the obstruction, resume the use of the “Cascade.” Hot fomentations over
the appendicular region are valuable. Give no medicine, it can do no
good, but may do infinite mischief. After the bowel has been emptied let
the patient have absolute rest, and if there is much pain and
inflammation present, apply cracked ice, in a rubber bag, over the
affected part. The diet should be absolutely liquid until all danger has
passed. This is of the highest importance.
DISEASES OF THE LIVER.
Liver complaints are always closely related to other diseases of the
digestive organs. The colon being clogged, the intestines are rendered
sluggish, which in turn acts upon the duodenum, or second stomach, and
prevents the food from properly passing out--then fermentation takes
place. Bile is poured out on the accumulated food again and again, for
the presence of anything in the duodenum is a demand for the secretion
of bile. As a result too much bile is mixed with the food to be
absorbed--the blood becomes tainted with biliary secretions--showing
itself in a yellow skin, dizziness of the head, dull, sleepy condition
and lack of ambition. This overtaxing of the organ results in what is
known as acute congestion, the symptoms of which are tenderness to touch
and a feeling of painful tension on right side just above the edge of
the ribs, slight jaundice, furred tongue, loss of appetite and scanty
high colored urine.
TREATMENT.
Open the colon by the use of the “Cascade,” when the intestines and
duodenum will be in turn relieved, then open up the pores of the skin
with baths and allow Nature to expel the waste from the system in that
manner. The wet sheet pack will be found specially valuable for that
purpose.
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