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example, may be administered in this way when it will not sit upon thestomach, and also in larger doses than at any time it can be taken by themouth. The Peruvian bark may likewise be, with good effect, admini-stered in form of clyster to persons who cannot take it by the mouth.—A simple clyster can seldom do hurt, and there are many cases where itmtiy do much good. A clyster even of warm water, by serving as afomentation to the parts, may be of considerable service in inflammationsof the bladder and the lower intestines, &c. Some substances, as thesmoke of tobacco, may be thrown into the bowels in this way, whichcannot by any other means whatever. This may be easily effected bymeans of a pair of hand-bellows, with an apparatus fitted to them for thatpurpose. Nor is the use of clysters confined to medicines. Alimentmay also be conveyed in this way. Persons unable to swallow havebeen, for a considerable time, supported by clysters.

Emollient Clyster.—Take of linseed tea and new milk, each sixounces. Mix them.—If fifty or sixty drops of laudanum be added tothis, it will supply the place of the Anodyne Clyster.

Laxative Clyster.—Take of milk and water, each six ounces ; sweetoil or fresh butter, and brown sugar, of each two ounces. Mix them.—If an ounce of Glauber's salt, or two table-spoonfuls of common salt, beadded to this, it will be the Purging Clyster.

Carminative Clyster.—Take of camomile flowers, an ounce; anise-seeds, half an ounce. Boil in a pint and half of water to one pint.—Inhysteric and hypochondriac complaints this may be administered insteadof the Foetid Clyster, the smell of which is so disagreeable to mostpatients.

Oily Clyster.—To four ounces of the infusion of camomile flowers,add an equal quantity of Florence oil.—This clyster is beneficial inbringing off the small worms lodged in the lower parts of the alimentarycanal. When given to children, the quantity must be proportionablylessened.

Starch Clyster.—Take jelly of starch, four ounces ; linseed oil, halfan ounce. Liquefy the jelly over a gentle fire, and then mix in the oil.—In the dysentery or bloody flux, this clyster may be administered afterevery loose stool, to heal the ulcerated intestines, and blunt the sharpnessof corroding humours. Forty or fifty drops of laudanum may be oc-casionally added; in which case, it will generally supply the place of theAstringent Clyster.

Turpentine Clyster.—Take of common decoction, ten ounces; Veniceturpentine, dissolved with the yolk of an egg, half an ounce; Florenceoil, one ounce. Mix them.—This diuretic clyster is proper in obstruc-tions of the urinary passages, and in colicky complaints proceeding fromgravel.

Vinegar Clyster.—This clyster is made by mixing three ounces ofvinegar with five of water-gruel.—It answers all the purposes of a com-mon clyster, with the peculiar advantage of being proper either in in-flammatory or putrid disorders, especially in the latter.—We think itunnecessary to give more examples of this class of medicines, as ingre-d'ents adapted to any particular intention may be occasionally added toone or other of the above forms.