SPECIALIST IN RECTAL, ANAL, AND BOWEL DISEASES, AND
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO BECOME STRONG.”
Cloth, 277 pages
The above is the title of a work for non-professional readers on the cause and cure of many forms of bowel and stomach trouble, and their consequences, and the scientific treatment of piles, fistula, pruritus ani (itching), etc.
Science is here reduced to common sense; and the intelligent layman, following the directions of this book, especially as to “physiological irrigation,” will be able to prevent the usual daily foul state of the stomach and bowels. Here is set forth in plain language the accumulated experience of a thoughtful physician, who for over thirty years has studied the welfare of his patients in the treatment of those diseases which are peculiar to civilization. During this long practise, patients from all parts of the United States and other countries have come to New York City to be under the humane and skilful care of Dr. Jamison, who has the unique reputation of never employing the barbarous surgical and hospital methods in vogue throughout the world. No knife, ligature, clamp, or cautery has ever been employed by him in the treatment of even the most aggravated case of piles, or hemorrhoids; and no detention from business is necessary under his treatment for this symptom of proctitis.
Dr. Jamison’s discoveries in the line of his specialty have added much to medical knowledge concerning the etiology and pathology of proctitis, sigmoiditis, and of their symptoms—hemorrhoids, pruritus ani, constipation, etc. His diagnosis of these afflictions is original, as well as his treatment of such ailments—hitherto neglected or improperly cared for.
Physicians and surgeons of conventional schools of medicine are not aware that the common cause, and indeed the key, of all forms of anal, rectal, and bowel trouble is proctitis (inflammation of the lower bowel and sometimes of the colon); that proctitis is the cause of nearly all cases of constipation, diarrhea, indigestion, and biliousness; and that, finally, proctitis is the cause of auto-infection (self-poisoning) and its outcome—anemia, emaciation, etc.
No book to which physicians have access treats this subject so fully as “Intestinal Ills,” and yet in this volume it is presented in a popular manner suited to the common understanding.
The following enumeration of the chapter headings will give an idea of the scope of the treatise:
1. Man, Composed Almost Wholly of Water, is Constipated. Why?
2. The Physics of Digestion and Egestion.