Intestinal ills; chronic constipation, indigestion, autogenetic poisons, diarrhea, piles, etc : also auto-infection, auto-intoxication, anemia, emaciation, etc., due to proctitis and colitis / by Alcinous B. Jamison.

  • Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton), 1851-
Date:
1913
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Credit: Intestinal ills; chronic constipation, indigestion, autogenetic poisons, diarrhea, piles, etc : also auto-infection, auto-intoxication, anemia, emaciation, etc., due to proctitis and colitis / by Alcinous B. Jamison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    and forces in the world without,—servitors in fact which must not be ignored under penalty of transforming them into foes to his well-being. Disease makes him aware that by ignoring the claims of his inner relations he has been converting his very food, juices and gases into insidious and formidable poisons, which perforce he ab- sorbs into his blood and tissues and circu- lates throughout his entire system. Thus does the disguised anorel admonish the iq-. norant that the rights of the inner world must not be ignored—that one's duties thereto cannot be neglected without dis- astrous consequences. Thus does Pathology, which is really Physiology reversed, become the self-re- vealer par excellence. Through digestion and assimilation the physiological process takes up the food, juices and gases, to support and augment the life of man. The pathological process, on the contrary, because the conditions for nutrition are ignored, reverses the upbuilding pro- cesses ; and the organs of life wither,