TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe colon tube and the high enema
AU  - SOPER HW
Y1  - 1909/08/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.92550060002002
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 426
EP  - 428
VL  - LIII
IS  - 6
N2  - The question of how far into the colon it is possible to introduce a soft rubber "colon tube" appears to be as yet not definitely settled. The majority of physicians in this country and in France seem to be of the opinion that the tube must be passed through the sigmoid flexure in order effectively to administer a nutrient enema. In Germany, Nothnagel1 (in 1898), Naunyn2 (1896), Boas3 (1903), and others maintained that the soft tube always coiled up in the ampulla or dilated portion of the rectum and could not be made to pass through the sigmoid. Wachmuth's4 early work in 1862 laid the foundation for the general belief that the long tube could be passed high up into the colon. Cadge4 and G. Simon5 were among the first
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.92550060002002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550060002002
ER  -