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These are useful in hastening the evacuation of the 

 bowels when the disease requires their speedy action. 



Two ounces of soft or yellow soap, dissolved in a 

 gallon of warm water, will form a useful aperient 

 clyster. For a more active aperient, half a pound of 

 Epsom salts, or even of common salt, may be dissolved 

 in the same quantity of water. A stronger injection, 

 but not to be used if much purgative medicine has 

 been previously given, may be composed of an ounce 

 of Barbadoes aloes, dissolved in two or three quarts of 

 warm water. If nothing else can be procured, warm 

 water may be employed. 



In cases of over-purging, or inflammation of the 

 bowels, the injection must be of a soothing nature. It 

 may consist of gruel alone, or, if the purging is con- 

 siderable, and difficult to stop, the gruel must be 

 thicker, and four ounces of prepared, or powdered 

 chalk, well mixed with or suspended in it, with two 

 scruples or a drachm of powdered opium. 



No oil should enter into the composition of a 



