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HINTS TO TRAVELLERS. 
Enema.—Nutrient enema: 
Two eggs, 
Half teaspoonful of salt, 
A wine-glassful of milk. 
Beat up the eggs, then add the salt and milk, and mix well. Inject 
slowly through the long tube well up into the bowel. 
Nutrient enema: 
Benger’s beef jelly, two tablespoonfuls, 
Milk, about three ounces. 
Warm-water enema. To relieve uneasiness of lower bowel, as* in 
dysentery, piles, etc., half a pint or more of warm water, by the 
short tube. 
Soothing enema. Laudanum, thirty drops; warm water about two 
ounces. A little thin starch water or gum may be added. Inject through 
the short tube, and repeat the injection in three hours if patient is not 
easier. 
Quinine enema. Quinine, twenty grains or more; warm water, about 
two ounces. If the patient does not retain the injection, give a second 
one within an hour. Select a soluble preparation of quinine, such as 
the bisulphate or the hydrobromide. 
Ipecacuanha and opium enema. Ipecacuanha, thirty grains; laudanum, 
twenty drops; starch ©r gum water, about two ounces. Especially 
useful in dysentery, when the stomach will not retain ipecacuanha. 
Aperient enema. Wash hands in thirty ounces of warm water, using- 
plenty of soap to make a good solution; or use plain warm water or 
weak gruel; the addition of one or two tablespoonfuls of oil is of 
advantage. Inject slowly into bowel with short tube; if it does not 
cause uneasiness, inject the whole amount. The injection should be 
retained as long as possible. 
Epsom salts , or sulphate of magnesia .—Dose, two teaspoonfuls or more. 
Is a saline purgative, giving a copious watery motion, rapid in its action, 
and useful in fevers or congestion of the liver. It also increases the 
flow of urine. 
Becently has been much used in dysentery (p. 176). 
Friar's Balsam. —(Tinct. Benzoin Co.) Dose, thirty drops or more. 
Internally is useful as an expectorant in bronchitis. 
