Autointoxication, or, intestinal toxemia / by J. H. Kellogg.

  • Q380036
Date:
1919
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Credit: Autointoxication, or, intestinal toxemia / by J. H. Kellogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disease have been checked and most distressing symptoms mitigated in thousands of cases through the use of means for increasing intes¬ tinal activity and in some cases by the more radical surgical measures proposed by Mr. Lane. Indeed, the popularity of those health resorts whose sole attraction is laxative water from a spring or artesian well, depends on the enormous demand for means to increase intestinal activity. These facts bear eloquent testimony to the soundness of the view that intestinal stasis is the fundamental and widespread cause of a large share of the chronic maladies that afflict the people of civilized lands. But that these meas¬ ures are not highly curative is shown by the fact that medical men are continually seeking for new and better laxative products that will ac¬ complish the desired end without doing harm, and the surgeons are equally active in seeking for better, safer, and more effective surgical procedures. Laxative drugs sooner or later pro¬ duce colitis and spastic conditions that leave the patient worse than in the beginning. Very few surgeons are as yet convinced that the elimination of the colon from human beings would be an improvement on the Creator’s handi¬ work; and it is a notorious fact that most of those wrho have submitted themselves to short- circuiting and even more radical surgical oper¬ ations for relief of intestinal stasis, sooner or later, usually within a year after the operation, find themselves suffering from the same distress¬ ing symptoms for the relief of which they con¬ sented to submit themselves to a mutilating sur¬ gical procedure.
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