Word: fecal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves to a roughage-free diet without ill effect. There are others who develop colon stasis in various portions of the large bowel. And while a certain degree of colon stasis may be tolerated without ill effect, such individuals are liable to disturbances arising from the abnormal retention of fecal material in these portions of the bowel. There is no doubt as evidenced from practical experience that many such individuals who find themselves to have irregular and inadequate bowel movements can secure more regular and more satisfactory evacuations by the use of bran in their diet...
Many an able doctor uses colonic irrigations expecting thus to clean up a focal infection causing a systemic disease like arthritis; to take a load off a weak heart; to prevent absorption of poisonous fecal matter into the system...