Membranous catarrh of the intestines (Colica Mucosa) / by Carl von Noorden.

Date:
1904
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Credit: Membranous catarrh of the intestines (Colica Mucosa) / by Carl von Noorden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flammatory affections, just as any other symptom may, we are certainly justified, from a purely symptomatic standpoint, in calling paroxysmal exacerbations “colica mucosa.” There are a number of very valuable post mortem reports on record that demonstrate positively that a disease-picture corresponding to colica mucosa (and that I will describe more fully below) may actually be observed in cases of genuine enteritis (M. Rothmann: Zeitschrift f. Klin. Medicin, Vol. 2 2, 1893, and J. C. Hemmeter, Diseases of the In- testine, Vol. I, pag. 486, 1901). Other case reports by Boas Einhorn Schutz Krysinski and finally a considerable number of obser- vations that I have made myself, all demonstrate without doubt that this is actually the case. The occurrence of the symptom complex of colica mucosa in genuine enteritis seems so unquestionable and self-evident to us that it is hardly worth while to adduce more evidence to strengthen this view. Boas is of the opinion that these positive findings in regard to the anatomic changes in the mucous lining of the bowel are “without doubt of much greater importance than any negative findings.” Personally we are inclined to maintain precisely the opposite; we consider it to be much more in- teresting and much more important that the typical disease-picture of colica mucosa may occasionally be observed in cases that reveal a perfectly normal condition of the intestinal mucosa on autopsy. To