It may seem odd that an enlarged prostate gland should be mentioned in connection with such a condition as colitis. The strangeness of the mention is increased by the knowledge of the fact that the prostate gland is in no way connected, either in position or in function, with the food digestion canal except for [...]
Heart Disease and Colitis
How on earth can colitis cause heart disease? Well, your amazement at this question is just as great as mine was when I first discovered that one of my patients, who had for some time past thought that he was suffering from severe coronary disease (heart disease), discovered that when his colitis had been cured, [...]
Eye Diseases and Colitis
“Windows of the soul,” the poet said of the eyes. With this observation we have no quarrel, but from a more practical standÂpoint, doctors have found the eye an extremely important weather vane for the detection of diseases or disturbances elsewhere in the body.
Prominent among these are certain disturbances which are due to disturbances within [...]
Amebic Dysentery and Colitis
The lowly ameba so familiar to high school students in biology has a famous cousin, technically known as the ameba histolytica. This microscopic animal is the cause of amebic dysentery, one of the diseases dreaded by folks who live or travel in the jungle. To anyone acquainted with the tropics and of the difficulties and [...]
Skin Diseases, Liver Spots and Colitis
Liver spots are light brown patches of irregular shape and size which usually appear on the skin of the face, on the cheeks, and over the bridge of the nose, though they may occur anywhere else on the body. Their occurrence has traditionally, though without scientific basis of fact, been associated with disorders of the [...]
Female Genital Complaints and Colitis Disease
No one female organ, certainly none as large and important as the colon, can suffer serious disorder without creating a shower of reflex effects upon those organs which come into relation with it in the same nerve channel. For this reason the female genital organs are particularly prone to disturbance when an extensive colitis exists.
Irregularities [...]
Catarrhal Colitis With Spasm
Elsewhere in this blog, I have made the statement that the most dangerous stage in the course of the disease known as colitis is when the patient feels well. This may sound paradoxical but it is nevertheless true. It is true for the reason that this is the very time that the patient feels that [...]
Can Other Conditions Be Mistaken For Colitis?
Can other conditions be mistaken for colitis disease? Most assuredly they can and, in the past, most assuredly have been. Perhaps it is for this reason that colitis, as a distinct disease, has been late coming of age. Indeed, certain observations made in the course of many years of practice have led me to suspect [...]
Drink as a Colitis Cause
Beverage types that can be classified as colitis causes.
Cold Drinks
Carbonated Drinks
Mineral Waters
Hard Waters
Poisoned Waters
Impure Waters
When one speaks of drink for being a colitis cause, it is all too often taken for granted that what is referred to is an alcoholic beverage. There are, of course, many other beverages which people drink which give abundant evidence [...]
