. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. Fig. 24.—Bodenhamers Recto-colouic Endoscope and Reflecting Mirror. For tJie detection of intestinal parasites, it is necessary not onlyto examine for discJiarged zvorms, zvorm-segments, and embryos,but especially for the ova. The gfreat sig-nificance of examinations directed to their. Fig. 25.—The Martin Proctoscope, with the Obturator in Position. detection is shown by the fact that, by this means, it has re-peatedly been possible not only to demonstrate for the firsttime the presence of parasites, but by
. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. Fig. 24.—Bodenhamers Recto-colouic Endoscope and Reflecting Mirror. For tJie detection of intestinal parasites, it is necessary not onlyto examine for discJiarged zvorms, zvorm-segments, and embryos,but especially for the ova. The gfreat sig-nificance of examinations directed to their. Fig. 25.—The Martin Proctoscope, with the Obturator in Position. detection is shown by the fact that, by this means, it has re-peatedly been possible not only to demonstrate for the firsttime the presence of parasites, but by their expulsion to re-move severe pathologic conditions. The frequency of parasitesis shown by the statistics of Heisig, who was able to demon- 60 DISEASES OF THE RECTUM AND ANUS strate parasite-ova in the stools of 119 individuals out of 230examined (52 per cent.). In many instances their presence is indicated by no ma-croscopically demonstrable alterations of the stools. Thatchronic diarrhea, which may cease after expulsion of tape-worms, is occasionally present, has already been various infusoria have been found in chronic diarrheain such large numbers as to be of significance. While, on theone hand, proof of the etiologic relation of the infusoria tothe origin of the disease could not be established; on the other,there was no doubt that t
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