3. (Ph. E.) As the last, but using simple water instead of barley water.
4. (Ph. D.) Oil of turpentine, 1 fl. oz.; mucilage of barley, 16 fl. oz.
5. (Dr Neligan.) Oil of turpentine, 1⁄2 fl. oz.; syrup of garlic, 1 fl. oz.; barley water, 6 or 7 fl. oz. In ascarides, and as an antispasmodic and purgative in colic, obstinate constipation, calculus, peritonitis, tympanitis (DRUM-BELLY), &c.
Enema, Ver′mifuge. Syn. Enema anthelminticum, E. vermifugum, L. Prep. 1. Castor oil, 1 oz.; mucilage, 3⁄4 oz.; decoction of the root of male fern, 7 fl. oz. In worms, especially tape-worm.
2. (Collier.) Oil of turpentine, 1 fl. oz.; olive oil (warm), 1⁄2 pint. In ascarides.
3. (Dr Darwall.) Tincture of sesquichloride of iron, 1 dr.; water, 7 or 8 fl. oz. In ascarides, especially when occurring in childhood; the quantity used being proportionately lessened. See Enemas of Aloes, Assafœtida, Turpentine, &c.
Enema of Vinegar. Syn. Enema acetici. (Brande.) Prep. Vinegar, 2 oz.; infusion of chamomile, 4 oz. In typhus fever.
Enema of Wine. Syn. Enema vinosum, L. Prep. From sherry wine and hot water, of each 7 fl. oz. In suspended animation. Sometimes a wine-glassful of brandy is added.
ENERGY, relative values of Food as sources of. Chemists and physiologists, although they agree that muscular power is derived from the action of the oxygen supplied during respiration upon the digested portions of the food, differ in their conclusions as to whether the nitrogenous or non-nitrogenous principles of the food, form the chief source of this power or not. The opinion of Liebig, Playfair, Ranke, and others, that the oxidation and metamorphosis of the nitrogenous tissue is the fountain of muscular force has of late years been contested, and on the opposite view adduced, viz. that it is principally to the oxidation of the carbonaceous or non-nitrogenous constituents of the food, that animal dynamic power is due.
This latter view has received support from the experiments of Frankland, Lawes, and Gilbert (from their observations on the feeding of cattle), Edward Smith, Meyer, Pettenkofer, Voit, Wislicenus, Fick, Parkes, and others.