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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    patients live and should be suited to their circum- stances. It is impossible to say how long this “gradual” process of education will last. Some- times the intestine began to react normally to the normal average diet within four to six weeks, in other cases several months elapsed before this goal was reached. We wash to particularly emphasize that in all the cases that suffered relapses this was due to a too early departure or a too sudden de- parture from the dietary regulations that were pre- scribed. It became too tedious a matter for these patients to carry out the dietary regulations for a long time, and it became too inconvenient to refrain from eating the ordinary diet that they craved; or, again, intercurrent diseases appeared that necessitated an interruption of the system of dieting that was ordered (in two cases, for instance, an attack of febrile angina, and in another case pregnancy and hyperemesis). It will be seen from the above example of a special dietary that we, like all the other writers on this subject, advise combining certain general measures with the dietetic treatment that are intended to strengthen the nei'voiis resistmg powers of the pa- tients. Very much is gained in this direction merely by causing improvement of the bowel function and the general nutrition. How much of hydrothera- peutic treatment, electric therapy, etc., should be employed in different cases will largely depend on individual factors, and also on the characters of the