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Chapter IV: The Stomach and Intestines.2111
over the Small Intestine, as the Transverse Colon (F); then descending down
the left side as the Descending Colon (G); then forming that peculiar twist,
curve, or knotty-shape known as the Sigmoid Flexure, (H), at the lower
left-hand side of the abdomen; then passing into the smaller tube, known
as the Rectum, which is its terminal section, which ends in the Anus ( J), or
outer rear opening through which the excrement passes from the body.
The Colon is the Great Sewer of the Body, through which the waste matter,
refuse and excrement (known as “the faeces,” or “faecal matter”) is carried
away toward the Anus, there to be expelled by a “movement” or “passage.”
When this great sewer is allowed to become clogged, the condition called
Constipation ensues, and other evils follow in its train. The walls of the Colon
contain tiny absorbent channels, which tend to reabsorb into the system the
foul putrefying poisonous excrement, or waste matter, which Constipation
prevents from passing along the normal channel, and which accumulates
and chokes up the Colon, thus rendering the normally clean Colon the
receptacle and retainer of a foul, putrefying mass. The absorbent capacity
of the walls of the Colon has been proven by its capacity to absorb drugs
that have been injected into it, the effects being manifested in a few minutes.
Moreover, nourishment is often administered in this way, through the Colon,
in cases where the patient is unable to retain food in the stomach. So you see
that the Colon is capable of absorbing some very undesirable material back
into the system, in cases in which it becomes clogged or obstructed. It is like
the action of a sewer which “backs up “into your house drain-pipes, when
it becomes clogged or stopped. This fact is not realized by the majority of
people, who fail to realize the dangers of the situation.
It is with the Colon, that we are chiefly concerned in this consideration of
the Source of Disease. In our next chapter, we shall consider it in detail.