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 . relief which is sometimes highly it must not be forgotten that at the sametime they inflict grave injury upon the colon,to say nothing of injuries to the stomach, liver,kidneys and other organs, sometimes even in-cluding the heart. Every laxative drug which acts by irrita-tion of the colon, in time causes colitis or infec-tion of the bowel. The congestion of the colon
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 . relief which is sometimes highly it must not be forgotten that at the sametime they inflict grave injury upon the colon,to say nothing of injuries to the stomach, liver,kidneys and other organs, sometimes even in-cluding the heart. Every laxative drug which acts by irrita-tion of the colon, in time causes colitis or infec-tion of the bowel. The congestion of the colonmucous membrane caused by the drug, destroysthe filtering power of the membrane so thatthe poisons developed in the colon by putre-faction are readily taken into the blood, thusintensifying the effects of the intestinal toxe-mia always present with constipation. Colitis is accompanied by a spastic condi-tion of the colon. That is, the colon contractsso that the contents cannot be pushed forwarden masse, but must be slowly carried along inlumps. The occurrence of round, hard lumpsin the stool is proof of this spastic adhesions of the pelvic colon,pouching and hindering adhesions of the r. 10 P. M. Breakfast Residue Discharged (bowel movement at bed time). Dinner Residue (red) in Colon, and Supper Residue (yellow) ready to pass into Colon.
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