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

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[1924]
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    and their Pathological Significance At the present time the interest of medical investigators throughout the world is eagerly centred upon the toxaemias, more especially upon the group of maladies associated with the absorption of bacterial products from the bowel—the so- called alimentary toxaemias. “The extent to which intestinal toxaemia can affect the normal processes of nutrition is not a little remarkable, as revealed by the symptoms to which it gives rise. These may be enumerated as follows: Some enlargement of the thyroid, loss of appetite, menstrual irregularities, irritability of temper, varying tempera- ture, infiltration of the skin at the back of the upper arm, a tendency (in women) to hair growth on the cheeks and chin, premature greyness of the hair, blueness of the nose and ears, lividity and clamminess of the hands and feet, feeble circulation, furred tongue, foul breath and perspiration, ‘rheumatic’ pains in muscles and joints, pallid complexion, headache, pigmentation of the skin, especially in certain areas, such as the eyelids and axilla, weariness and lassitude, inability to concentrate the mind, loss of desire for active exercise, sleeplessness, mental depression, neuralgia, acne, etc.’’! One aim of this paper is to gather together, and present in a handy form for reference, some of the more important late1 evidence regarding the recognised effects of such intestinal toxaemias. At the end attention is directed to the obvious means of destroying the putrefactive organisms which es duce the causative toxins. 1Percy Dunn, The Medical Press, May 24th, 1922.
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