. A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine and pathology, diseases of women and children, and medical surgery . derange-ments. Among the diseases that may be mentioned as originatingfrom constipation of the bowels, are hemorrhoidal tumors, stran-gury, catarrh of the bladder, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhoea, leucor-rhoea, apoplexy, epilepsy, paralysis, dyspepsia, insanity, etc., etc. Causes.—One of the first causes of constipation, is that of a de-bility of the muscular coat of the intestines. It may arise fromstructural disease of the intestinal coats, torpor of the colon, seden-tary ha
. A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine and pathology, diseases of women and children, and medical surgery . derange-ments. Among the diseases that may be mentioned as originatingfrom constipation of the bowels, are hemorrhoidal tumors, stran-gury, catarrh of the bladder, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhoea, leucor-rhoea, apoplexy, epilepsy, paralysis, dyspepsia, insanity, etc., etc. Causes.—One of the first causes of constipation, is that of a de-bility of the muscular coat of the intestines. It may arise fromstructural disease of the intestinal coats, torpor of the colon, seden-tary habits, sensual indulgences, the use of narcotics, etc. It oc-curs in the aged, in de-bilitated constitutions, inanaemic patients, in thosewho neglect the calls ofnature, and in individualsof indolent and luxurioushabits. It may also beproduced by a vitiatedstate of the secretionsconcerned in the process of alimentation. It maydepend upon imperfec-tion of the diet, such asintroducing into the sto-mach ingesta which can-not be properly dissolvedin the gastric secretions,and which lacks the pro-per quality of Fig. 25. 346 CONSTIPATION. Constipation is also a very common occurrence as the result of amorbid state of the brain and nervous system. The nerves andbrain when diseased, fail to impart to the bowel3 that amount ofnervous influence essential to their healthy condition. Again, con-stipation may be produced by irritating medicines, and the constantuse of drastic purgatives. It may also be produced by excessivesecretions from other portions of the body; as when elimination iscarried on by the various emunctories, if there is an excess of elimi-nation from one, there is a proportionate diminution in emotion, grief, anxiety, &c, also produce constipation. Itmay occur as the result of stricture of the rectum, or other portionsof the bowels. A remarkable case is shown by Mr. Easton, inwhich there was an accumulation of fsecal matter in the ascendingcolon
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