The itinerary of a breakfast : a popular account of the travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations through which it passes, also of the obstacles which it sometimes meets . ng and highly poisonous and of-fensive food residues. Undigested fragments of decaying fleshare always found in the colon of meat-eatersand supply the best possible soil for the luxu-riant growth of disease producing germs. In-deed, the germs which cause putrefaction, thecolon bacillus, Welchs bacillus, B. putrificusand other putrefactive organisms, are allpoison-forming and disea
The itinerary of a breakfast : a popular account of the travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations through which it passes, also of the obstacles which it sometimes meets . ng and highly poisonous and of-fensive food residues. Undigested fragments of decaying fleshare always found in the colon of meat-eatersand supply the best possible soil for the luxu-riant growth of disease producing germs. In-deed, the germs which cause putrefaction, thecolon bacillus, Welchs bacillus, B. putrificusand other putrefactive organisms, are allpoison-forming and disease-producing cause inflammation, suppuration, ab-cess, gangrene, and death when their growthis unchecked. These very germs are the causeof colitis, the almost universal accompanimentof chronic constipation. Colitis causes spasm or contraction of thelower half of the colon and exaggerated anti-peristalsis, that is, reversed action of the colon,so that putrid fecal matters accumulate in theCEecum, overstretch this part of the colon, andproduce appendicitis, incompetency of the ileo-cecal valve and autointoxication. It is evident, then, that the flesh-eatinghabits of Americans must be one of the great. 6:00 P. M. Breakfast Residue (blue) mostly in Descending Colon. Dinner Residue (Red) passing into Colon, mixing with Breakfast Residue. Supper just eaten (yellow).
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