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natural size, filling the gut uniformly, with a small hole the size of one’s little
finger through the center, through which the recent faecal matter passed. In
the lower part of the sigmoid-flexure, just before descending to form the
rectum, and in the left-hand upper corner of the colon as it turns toward
the right, were pockets eaten out of the hardened faecal matter, in which
were eggs of worms and quite a quantity of maggots, which had eaten
into the sensitive mucous membrane, causing serious inflammation of the
colon and its adjacent parts, and as recent investigation has established as
a fact, were the cause of his hemorrhoids, or piles, which I learned were of
a years’ standing. The whole length of his colon was in a state of chronic
inflammation; still this man considered himself well and healthy until the
unfortunate eating of the grape-seed and popcorn, and had no trouble in
getting his life insured in one of the best companies in America.”
Dr. Turner afterward conducted all extended series of investigations
along the same lines, with the startling result that he felt justified in claiming
that fully seven-tenths of adult mankind were afflicted in a similar way, in
various degrees. He found that the colons of a great majority of the cases
examined gave results corresponding very closely to those observed in the
typical case noted above.
A Chicago physician, in an article in the Medical Examiner, gives the
following result of his investigations along this line: “The muscular coats
of the intestines are circular and longitudinal. In the large intestine the
longitudinal fibres are proportionately longer than in the small intestine.
Their greater length permits the formation of cells or cavities which become
the seat of faecal accumulations only too often unnoticed by the physician.
It is undoubtedly a fact that these cavities in the colon contain small faecal
accumulations extending over weeks, months or even years. Their presence
produces symptoms varying all the way from a little catarrhal irritation up
to the most diverse, and in some cases serious, reflex disturbances. When
the cavities only are filled, the main channel of the colon is undisturbed.
Occasionally a cavity will become greatly enlarged and filled with faeces,