Internal baths : the principle and the process : being an exposition of Prof. Chas. A. Tyrrell's celebrated "J.B.L. Cascade," a device for eliminating the waste of the system : drugs shown to be injurious to health and longevity : essentially a home treatment.

  • Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute.
Date:
[1898?]
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Credit: Internal baths : the principle and the process : being an exposition of Prof. Chas. A. Tyrrell's celebrated "J.B.L. Cascade," a device for eliminating the waste of the system : drugs shown to be injurious to health and longevity : essentially a home treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    first promulgated a system of medicine. Recent investigation has also developed the fact thut all cases of tuberculosis or cousumptiou have their origin in one or more tubercular ulcers in the Colon, located as a sequel of above described pockets of maggoty worms, and that hereditary consumption is a myth. The question is often asked. '• Why is this unnatural accumulation in the Colon V The horse or ox promptly obeys the call of nature, and knows no time or place, and a: c blessed with a lean Colon. So are the natives of Africa. But the demands of civilized life insist upon a time and place. Business, etiquette, opportunity, and a thousand and one excuses, stand continually' in the way, and Nature's call is put off to a more convenient season. The fiecal discharge as it is pressed through the Ileo Coecal valve into thgi Colon is (if natural) of the consistency of paste, and should be but a trifle harder at its final evacuation ; but if allowed to remain in the Colon longer than three hours, it settles into the foldsof the Colon, and a little remains there while the remainder becomes hard, and we call it constipation, for its lluid particles have been absorbed buck into the circulation. i# This little continuing to adhere in the folds, causes inflammation, and its dryness attracts more accumulation. Now this process, going on from day to day, from week to week, from j'ear to year, the Colon becomes completely lined, losing its nerve, elastic power and sensibility. Then the fuical matter passes through the five feet of Colon by force of pressure from above like a shoemaker's punch—the first round piece cutis the first piece out. Tliat which pass- ed to-day should have passed one or two week's ago. ]\Ian3' times it is small round balls, hard and apparently moulded ; one lady said she thought it was the relics of each mouthful of food. But this moulding is in this wise. At the terminus of the small iniestines the last six inches terminate in a pouch, at the terminus of which, wher« it enters the Colon, it is called the Ileo Ca>cal valve, which when the pouch is full, open and discharges itsconteutsintothe Colon, wheuitcloses, thereby forbidding any return of the contents of the Colon. Now, if there is any obstruction to the free discharge from this pouch, the valve closes for fear of return of the contents. Now suppose the Colon is full at this point, or nearly so, the moment the substance touches the obstruction, the valve closes, biting of a piece the size of the ball spoken of, then the pouch demands to be emptied and again forces open the valve, until again it strikes the obstruction, when the valve again closes. So it goes on acting spasmod- ically, moulding the .contents of the pouch into small round balls until it is empty, and in a week or two these balls of fa'cal matter pass off, Avhieh should have passed within three hours, forcing their way through the small passage in the Colon, for Nature is bound to keep an opening or we would all die. Do you wonder, dear reader, that men die of premature old age, apoplexy, paralysis, drops}', consumption, dyspepsia, so-called liver complaint, or biliary derangement, Bright's disease or any other kidney trouble ? Catarrh (which if left alone fertilizes a field for consumption), epilipsy, rectal disease, syphilis, rheumatism, female dis- eases of all kinds of nanus, spinal irritation, peritonitis, all kinds of skin diseases, and impurity of the blood, old sores, cancers, and, lastly all kindsof fevera nf a malarial or contagious nature, all have their origin in the Colon.