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 [...]
Grumbling Appendix “False Alarm” It’s Colitis Disease
“It’s a red hot grumbling appendix. Get down to the hospital right away and we will take it out.” It all sounds so simple. Indeed it would be a great blessing if it were actually as simple as this sounds. Long experience, however, has taught many of us who practice medicine to make haste slowly [...]
Constipation-Colitis-Cancer Flagrantly Overlooked
One need only glance at the advertising pages of popular periodicals to realize that constipation is a universal complaint. It is spoken of as a distinct disorder. The medical profession itself is apt to consider it a separate ailment and treat it accordingly. For the relief of constipation, countless laxatives are prescribed or taken without [...]
Two Nervous Systems One Food Digestion Canal
Your Table of Contents Part 4 - Two Nervous Systems One Food Digestion System
We now come to that part of the tube where evidence of constipation first assumes form. In the large bowel practically no digestion occurs, and normally most of the absorption of foodstuffs has already occurred in the small intestine. I say normally [...]
Sphincter in Food Digestion
Your Table of Contents Part 3 - Sphincter in Food Digestion
The bile formed by the liver passes down the bile duct, encounters the closed valve, and is thus prevented at the moment from passing into the intestine. It backs up into what is known as the gall bladder. However, the moment the acid content of [...]
