712 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



The use of the coloclyster is seldom required more 

 than two or three times a week. It may sometimes be 

 used daily for a week or two, in cases in which an 

 extensive accumulation has existed for a long time, 

 and when the bowel contents are extremely fetid in 

 character, or in cases of jaundice. The temperature 

 of the water employed in the enema or coloclyster 

 should usually be about 75° to 80°. A^Hien employed 

 for dysentery or cholera, the temperature should be 

 105° to 110°. In some cases of acute inflammation 

 of the lower bowels, cold enemas of a temperature of 

 60° or even 40° may be usefully employed. Enemas 

 are best administered with the fountain or siphon syr- 

 inge, though any good syringe may be used. 



CONDENSED COMMENTS 



There is a most intimate relation between health 

 and morality. We have long held that a great share 

 of the crime among civilized people might be fairly 

 charged to bad physical conditions, which, by impair- 

 ing the physical health, lower the nerve tone, and then 

 the moral tone, so that there is not a proper apprecia- 

 tion of moral principles and obligations. Is not this 

 a means of explaining those strange lapses from recti- 

 tude on the part of men whose character has previously 

 been for a lifetime above reproach, which now and 

 then so startle and shock the moral sense of the com- 

 munity? A writer has suggested that the unhappy 

 condition of John Calvin's stomach may have been the 

 real cause of the burning of Servetus; and there is 

 probably no doubt that many a poor fellow has swung 

 from the gallows because he committed a crime in a 

 fit of indigestion. 



