240 REMEDIAL MEASURES OTHER THAN DRUGS. 



Nutrient enemata are employed to supply nourishment to the system whenever 

 the normal avenue is from any reason proscribed. All food should be predigested 

 with pancreatin. 



Heat is used to promote inflammatory action in restricted areas, to relax tissues, 

 to hasten circulation and thereby accelerate metabolism, to stimulate the emunctory 

 function of the skin by vasodilatation, and to act as a counterirritant. 



Hypodermoclysis is the supplying of liquid to the blood-stream by infiltrating 

 some subcutaneous tissue with normal salt solution, or preferably with Locke's solution. 



Transfusion is the utilizing of another's blood to supply a deficiency, in quantity 

 or constituents, in the blood of the patient. 



Inhalations are of use as a convenient means of applying atomized medicaments 

 to the respiratory tract, and of utilizing in the throat and bronchi the soothing relax- 

 ing effect of hot vapor. 



Rest is a means of giving a part needed time for recuperation. 



Gymnastics are useful in promoting more active metabolism by muscle move- 

 ments. The stimulated circulation is accompanied by increased oxidation and aug- 

 mented elimination of katabolic products. 



Dieting is the scientific supplying to the body of just those food constituents, and 

 in the form necessary for assimilation, that the body demands. Were correct dieting 

 universally understood and applied more than half of our present illnesses would 

 disappear. 



Starving is a measure taken to give the body time to complete elimination of the 

 accumulated waste in the tissues, and to adjust itself to the immediate metabolic re- 

 quirements. It has produced what seem to be cures in diabetes, and is an excellent 

 measure in plethoras of bowels, lungs, or circulation. 



