Southern Practitioner: An Independent Monthly Journal Devoted to Medicine and Surgery, Volume 9, Issue 3

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1887 - Medicine

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Page 103 - ... time. And if you fail the second day, you may, continuing the daily solicitation, wait until the fourth day, when assistance should be taken. The simplest and best will be a small enema of equal parts of olive oil and water. The action of this injection will be greatly helped by taking it with the hips raised, and by previously anointing the anus and the lower part of the rectum with vaseline or with oil. 8. If by the use of all these means you fail in establishing the habit of daily or of alternate...

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