Inner Hygiene: Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society
by James C. Whorton
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Inner Hygiene explores the serious health threat of constipation, and discusses the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures that have been developed to save people from the toxic effects of intestinal regularity. The book examines the evolution over the last two centuries ofthe belief that constipation is a disease brought on by an unnatural lifestyle of urban, industrial society. Particular attention is given to the many constipation therapies that people have used, show more including laxatives, enemas, mineral waters, bran cereals, yogurts, electrotherapy, calisthenics,rectal dilation devices, and many other remedies. The story is carried up to the present and demonstrates that many of constipation therapies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are continuing into the twenty-first. show lessTags
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James C. Whorton is Professor of the History of Medicine in the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
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- Nonfiction, History
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- 616.3 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Diseases of the digestive system
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- RC861 .W39 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Specialties of internal medicine Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
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