A practical essay on stricture of the rectum ... showing the connexion ... with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon].
- Salmon, Frederick, 1796-1868.
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical essay on stricture of the rectum ... showing the connexion ... with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![continue troublesome; she persists in the use of the enema, but has never attempted to pass the instrument. CASE XIIT. Mrs. , age 39.] Oct. 1826.—Had been mar- ried eight years, and had suffered severely from three miscarriages, never having had a living child ;;: was commonly subject to confined bowels; so much so, that she would pass five, and some- times seven days together, without any evacua- tion; she had frequent desire to make water, attended with heat and pain, and commonly suf- fered from piles. Being again in the family way, and approaching the period at which she had usually miscarried, namely, the fourth month, she was apprehensive of the like occurrence ; more particularly, because she felt occasional bearing down pains, and had a trifling discharge of blood from the vagina. Her principal object in consulting me, was to know whether I would advise her losing blood. I simply recommended the use of an enema of thin water gruel every night, with small doses of castor oil every morn- ing, m case the enema should not satisfactorily relieve her bowels. In the course of one fort- night all untoward symptoms disappeared; she](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30357494_0136.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
