The lazy colon : newer methods and latest advances of science in the treatment of constipation / by C.M. Campbell associated with A.K. Detwiller.

  • Campbell, C. Macfie (Charles Macfie), 1876-1943.
Date:
1926
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Credit: The lazy colon : newer methods and latest advances of science in the treatment of constipation / by C.M. Campbell associated with A.K. Detwiller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LAZY COLON Chapter I BIGGEST DIVIDENDS IN LIFE PAID BY A HEALTHY COLON In a late book that has attracted much attention a famous surgeon lays great stress on the fact that failure of the nearly twenty-eight feet of small and large human intestine to function properly is the primary cause not only of much ill health but of a very considerable number of organic diseases (dealt with elsewhere.) As he special¬ izes on abdominal surgery his conclusions are based on many observations.1 11 In a paper contributed to the same volume Sir Arthur Keith, of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, one of the highest authorities on the evolution of abdominal organs, says that soon after his appointment as a teacher of anatomy at the London Hospital in 1895, his attention was drawn to the large percentage of dissecting room subjects, particularly females, in which the abdominal organs were misshapen and displaced downwards. At the same time it was impressed upon him that a special action of the muscular walls of the abdomen is the chief means by which the abdominal organs are maintained in position since the time when we assumed an up¬ right posture. One of these organs that is often dis¬ placed is the transverse colon which frequently sags well below the navel and sometimes reaches the floor of the pelvis owing to the load of effete material it is required frequently to carry. 1 “Intestinal Stasis,” by Sir Wm. Arbuthnot Lane, of London. A leading abdominal surgeon, consulting surgeon Guy’s Hospital.