Food, improper,

            Bile, deficiency of,

            Dislocations of intestines,

            Nervous diseases,

            Hysteria,

            Paralysis of muscular coat of intestine,

            Chronic debilitating diseases,

            Loss of sensibility of colon and rectum,

            Fecal impaction,

            Tumor, fecal, characters of,

            Dilatation of colon and rectum,

        Symptoms,

            Torsion of cæcum,

            Internal strangulation from,

            Digestive disturbances,

            Appetite, impaired,

            Headache,

            Pain, colicky,

            Diarrhoea,

            Evolution of gases,

            Mental depression,

            Nervous symptoms,

            Pain in legs,

                in back,

            Strength, loss of,

                    of obstruction from,

    

,

            Frequency of,

            Seat of,

            From cicatrization of ulcers,

                cancer,

        Symptoms,

            Intestinal disorders,

            Colicky pains,

            Paroxysmal pain,

            Of rectum,

            Determination of, by digital examination,

    

,

            From abdominal tumors and cysts,

            From adhesions of chronic peritonitis,

            Seat of,

        Symptoms,

            Insidiousness of onset of,

            Intestinal disorders,

            Exhaustion,

            Distinguished from stricture,

        Differential diagnosis,

            From external strangulated hernia,

                functional obstruction of bowel,

            Of congenital occlusion,

            Of obstruction by foreign bodies,

                by gall-stones,

                by internal hernia,

                by torsion,

                uneven distension of abdomen in torsion,

                fecal accumulation,

                abdominal tumors,

            Of seat of obstruction,

            Of pain, significance of,

            Significance of constipation,

                of vomiting, stercoraceous,

        Duration,

        Mortality,

            Relative frequency of deaths by different forms,

        Treatment,

            Purgatives, uselessness and danger,

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            Quicksilver, use of,

            Opium, use of,

                method of administration,

            Of fecal impaction,

                Castor oil, use of, in,

            Of invagination low in rectum,

            Ice, locally, use of,

            Bleeding, use of,

            Electricity, use of,

            Abdominal taxis,

            Injection of warm water,

            Replacement of pressing tumors or organs,

            Stimulants, use of,

            Quinia, use of,

            Tapping of gut, in gaseous distension,

            Surgical,

            Laparotomy,

                in invagination,

                mortality,

,

                in internal hernia, volvulus, etc.,

            Entorectomy,

            Enterotomy,

                method of performing,

Intestinal tract, condition in rachitis,

    trichina,

    tube, ulceration and suppuration of, as a cause of suppurative pylephlebitis,

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