| The situation had changed from day before in that there were tenderness and pain in abdomen on pressure, some tympanites and an arrest of usual local discharge. |
| Palpation of the abdomen showing abdominal distension with a tympanitic note on percussion, but with normal urination, indicates qi tympanites. |
| In cases where the diarrhoea, tympanites, and griping pain are not relieved by other measures this suggestion may be of service. |
| In a week to ten days the tongue cleans, the thirst ceases, the appetite returns, the tympanites and pain diminish. |
| It must be remembered that over distension makes contraction impossible, i. e., tympanites is paralysis just exactly according to its degree of distension. |
| Indeed, tympanites is usually present in a sufficient degree to render this difficult. |
