Word: flatus
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...chemical engine of the body, and the secretion of bile is greatly influenced by the amount and the variety of ingested food. Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus. If lack of the food to which the upper bowel is accustomed continues for more than a very few hours, those species of bacteria normally resident in the colon and cecum ascend into the ileum and jejunum and there proliferate giving rise to huge amounts of gas and to symptoms...