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Bleeding from the Bowels.In other cases an escape of blood from the bowels is a symptom of disease higher up in the intestine. The affection which is most frequently accompanied by hemorrhage from the bowels is typhoid fever. In this disease severe bleeding sometimes occurs ; and in some cases but little blood escapes from the body, so that the patient may even die from unsuspected loss of blood into the bowel. We can usually distinguish blood which escapes from some point high up in the bowel from that which comes from piles by the color ; blood which issues from piles is usually of a bright red color, while that which proceeds from the upper part of the intestine is generally very dark, or even black ; its true nature may in fact escape detection, since it looks very much like pitch. Treatment. - In every case in which blood escapes from the internal organs - the lung, the stomach or the bowels - medical advice is required immediately. Until such assistance can arrive, some of the following measures may be employed with the hope of arresting the bleeding. Bleeding from the stomach should be treated by giving the patient pounded ice freely and telling him to swallow it at once. This may be followed by a teaspoonful of milk or water containing fifteen drops of the spirits of turpentine ; this dose may be repeated in a quarter of an hour if necessary. It will be well not to burden the patient's stomach with many remedies, since to do so will simply provoke vomiting, whereby the bleeding may be increased. If the ice and the turpentine have been administered, nothing further or better can be done. If these agents be not obtainable, a teaspoonful of alum or of tannin may be dissolved in a glass of water, a tablespoonful of which should be given to the patient every twenty or thirty minutes. If drugs can be readily obtained, the patient should have instead of the alum or tannin, a half teaspoonfnl of the tincture of ergot; this dose may be repeated at the end of fifteen or twenty minutes. Bleeding from the lungs should be treated by permitting the patient to inhale the vapor of warm turpentine. A convenient way for accomplishing this is to pour an ounce or two of turpentine into a teapot filled with boiling water, the patient applying the mouth near to the spout of the vessel. Or turpentine may be poured upon a napkin which is folded into the shape of a cone and applied over the mouth and nose ; the patient should take deep breaths, and the turpentine must be renewed as soon as it evaporates. The chest may be meanwhile rubbed with brandy and water ; the patient should be held in the sitting posture, the shoulders supported by a pillow ; he should be enjoined not to struggle nor talk. A popular remedy for bleeding from the lungs, as well as from the stomach, is common salt. A teaspoonful of this may be mixed with pounded ice, if nothing better can be obtained. Bleeding from the bowels should be treated by giving half a teaspoonful of the spirits of turpentine in a tablespoonful of milk, and by the application of cold cloths over the abdomen. If these measures do not suffice, ice-water maybe injected into the rectum, or pieces of ice wrapped in soft cloth may be inserted into the bowel. In these cases the tincture of ergot is a valuable remedy ; half a teaspoonful of this may be given, and a similar amount taken at the expiration of fifteen or twenty minutes. The patient should of course lie perfectly quiet, and resist, so far as possible, the inclination to evacuate the bowel. But first, if you want to come back to this web site again, just add it to your bookmarks or favorites now! Then you'll find it easy! Also, please consider sharing our helpful website with your online friends.
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