. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . )ressure. Congenitalobstruction, the eating of oatmeal and similar food are some of thecauses. The constipation may continue uninterruptedly for severalweeks, during which period the dulness in the track of the colon increases, Fig. Case of dilatation of colon. (Griffith.) and fecal tumors may be discovered on palpation. This condition istemporarily relieved by diarrhoea lasting two or three days, which may bepreceded by vomiting of a fecal character and during which enormousquantities of feces are passed. After th
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . )ressure. Congenitalobstruction, the eating of oatmeal and similar food are some of thecauses. The constipation may continue uninterruptedly for severalweeks, during which period the dulness in the track of the colon increases, Fig. Case of dilatation of colon. (Griffith.) and fecal tumors may be discovered on palpation. This condition istemporarily relieved by diarrhoea lasting two or three days, which may bepreceded by vomiting of a fecal character and during which enormousquantities of feces are passed. After the bowels have been opened thedistention continues, dulness being replaced by tympany. In the casesreported by Hughes and by Osier the abdomen was uniformly enlargedand coils of intestine were visible through the thin abdominal patient was an adult. It must be remembered that intestinalperistalsis is also observed in constriction of the bowels. (See page 508.)The movement of the intestine above the seat of stricture is undulatingor worm-like, and the bowel itself is dilated. From a consideration ofthe recorded cases of so-called idiopathic dilatation of the colon, Trevesbelieves that although in adults enormous dilatation of the large intestinemay undoubtedly occur independently of mechanic
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