Transactions of the Section on Obstetrics, Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery of the American Medical Association at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Session
Author: American Medical Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781528039109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Transactions of the Section on Obstetrics, Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery of the American Medical Association at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Session: Held at Atlantic City, N. J., June 23 to 26, 1914 By chronic intestinal stasis I mean that the passage of the contents of the intestinal canal is delayed sufficiently long to results in the production, in the small intestine especially, of an excess of toxic material, and in the absorption into the cir culation of a greater quantity of poisonous products than the organs which convert and excrete them are able to deal with. In consequence there exist in the circulation materials which produce degenerative changes in every single tissue of the body of which lower its resisting power to invasion by deleterious organisms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
