Intestinal toxaemias and their pathological significance : bulletin no. 1 / Dimol Laboratories, Limited.

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[1924]
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    of the sympathetic or the affected region. The same may be said of bromidrosis (odorous perspiration), which is closely allied.” Dituincuam, N.Y. Poly-clinic, 1909. “Symptoms that result directly from auto-intoxication: degenerative changes in the skin associated with alteration in its texture and colour, the development of pigmentation, especially in certain localities, and a more or less offensive character of the perspiration.’? ARBUTHNOT Lang, Brit. Med. Jour., Nov. 1, 1918. STASIS. “‘Lane’s disease, or chronic intestinal stasis, is a remarkably frequent condition. A large number of cases of nervous disease, arthritis and migraine are due to this cause. Numerous morbid processes, including tuberculosis, cancer and rheumatism, are agsravated by it, and many acute diseases are only grave or fatal because they develop in persons who are the subjects of chronic intestinal stasis. The cause of the disease is habitual constipation, which is the consequence of a slight congenital narrowing of the rectum as the result of a band of haemorrhoids, or of bad habits developed in childhood. Chronic intestinal stasis, however, is not synonymous with habitual constipation. In most constipated subjects the stasis is situated in the rectum or sigmoid, and does not give rise to symptoms of absorption. In Lane’s disease, on the other hand, the delay in transit occurs higher up, such as the last part of the ileum, the caecum, or ascending colon. The faeces, which are still fluid in these situations, are easily absorbed, and symptoms of chronic toxaemia develop.’? Paucuet, Arch. Med. Belg., Sept., 1921. ‘“‘There is a gradually extending belief that auto-intoxication arising from intestinal stasis is closely identified as a factor in the incidence of malignant disease.’’ Percy Dunn, The Medical Press, April 5, 1922. ‘I have very clear evidence of the fact that those who develop such diseases as are mentioned in the following list have suffered for some time from. chronic intestinal stasis: non-specific arteritis obliterans, angina pectoris, rheumatoid arthritis, Still’s disease, tubercle, exophthalmic goitre, adenoma of the thyroid, Addison’s disease, Raynaud’s disease, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, microbic cyanosis, dementia praecox, pernicious anaemia, disseminated sclerosis, paralysis agitans, infective endocarditis, and in many instances alcoholism and the drug habit, and numerous forms of skin disease.’? ARBUTHNOT Lang, The Lancet. Dec. 20. 1919
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