Mucous Colitis*
Authors: JULIUS FRIEDENWALD
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1929)

Article1 December 1929Mucous ColitisObservations in 500 CasesJULIUS FRIEDENWALD, M.D., MAURICE FELDMAN, M.D., LEWIS J. ROSENTHAL, M.D.JULIUS FRIEDENWALD, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, MAURICE FELDMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, LEWIS J. ROSENTHAL, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-3-6-521 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMucous colitis may be characterized as an affection in which more or less mucus is discharged from the bowel usually associated with colic and in which functional nervous manifestations are prominent.The first allusion to colitis is noted in Chronicles 11, Chapter 21, verses 12-19. "Thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." It was first accurately described by Richard Powell in 1818 and in this country by Mason Good2(1825) under the name of diarrhea tubularis. According to Woodward, however, Fernelius3was the first...References1 POWELL : Med. Trans. Royal Coll. Phys. London, 1820; Vol. 6; pg. 106. Google Scholar2 MASON GOOD : The Study of Medicine, Cl 1; Ord, 1; Species 7, Vol. 1. Phila., 1825; pg. 162. Google Scholar3 FERNELIUS : Patholog. Lib. 6, cap. 9, p. 181, Paris, 1854. Google Scholar4 DA COSTA : Am. Jour. Med. Scien., 62, 371; 1871. Google Scholar5 VON LEYDEN : Deut. Med. Wochenschrift, 8; 44; 1882. Google Scholar6 NOTHNAGEL : Diseases of the Intestines and Peritoneum, 2nd Edition. W. B. Saunders Co., 1907. page 233. Google Scholar7 BOCKUSBANKWILKINSON : Am. Journ. Med. Scien., 176; 813; 1928. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8 HURST : Constipation and Allied Conditions. Oxford Med. Public, 2nd Edition, 1919, page 282. Google Scholar9 VON NOORDEN : Membr. Catarrh of the Intestines. E. B. Treat & Co. N. Y., 1906, p. 54; 60; 41. Google Scholar10 VAUGHAN : Virginia Med. Mo., 49; 316; 1922. Google Scholar11 DUKE : Arch. Int. Med., 28; 151; 1921. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12 ANDRESEN : Med. J. and R., 122; 271; 1925. Google Scholar13 HOLLANDER : Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., 174; 495. 1927. Google Scholar14 VAUGHAN : South. Med. Jour., 21; 894; 1928. CrossrefGoogle Scholar15 BASTEDO : J. A. M. A., 92; 602; 1929. Google Scholar16 NORMANEGGSTON : New York Med. Jour., 116; 62; 1922. Google Scholar17 VON NOORDEN : Schmidt and Von Noorden Klink der Darmkrankheiten, 2 Auf. J. E. Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1921; 333; 339; 343. Google Scholar18 MALLORY : Jour. A. M. A., 90, 601; 1928. CrossrefGoogle Scholar19 BOAS : Archiv. f. Verdauunskr., 42; 270; 1928. Google Scholar20 STRAUSS : Deut. Med. Wochenschr., 49; 1568; 1923. CrossrefGoogle Scholar21 CRANE : Am. J .Roent. and Radium Ther. 17; 416; 1927. Google Scholar22 KANTOR : Amer. J. Roent. and Radium Ther. 17; 405; 1927. Google Scholar23 FLEINER : Berl. Klin. Wochenschr., 30; 93; 1893. Google Scholar24 SCHMIDT : Klin. d. Darmkr., Auf. Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1921, pg. 342. CrossrefGoogle Scholar25 ALVAREZ : The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract. Hoeber; 1928, 2nd Edition, page 327. Google Scholar26 CONNHEIM : Archiv. f. Verdauungskr., 42; 356; 1928. Google Scholar27 FRANK : Deut. Med. Wochenschr., 53; 219; 1927. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: JULIUS FRIEDENWALD, M.D.; MAURICE FELDMAN, M.D.; LEWIS J. ROSENTHAL, M.D.Affiliations: Baltimore, Maryland*From the Gastro-Enterological Clinic of the Department of Medicine of the University of Maryland.†Presented by title at the Meeting of the Association of American Physicians at Atlantic City, May, 1929. Nextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byPresent trends in mucous colitisStudies on colon irritationMUCOUS COLITIS: A DELINEATION OF THE SYNDROME WITH CERTAIN OBSERVATIONS ON ITS MECHANISM AND ON THE RÔLE OF EMOTIONAL TENSION AS A PRECIPITATING FACTOR*BENJAMIN V. WHITE, M.D., CHESTER M. JONES, M.D., F.A.C.P.Functional disorders of the gastro-intestinal tract: the “Gastro-intestinal neuroses” 1 December 1929Volume 3, Issue 6Page: 521-545KeywordsColitisDiarrheaFallsGastroenterology and hepatologyInflammatory bowel diseaseIrritable bowel syndromeMucus ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1929 PDF downloadLoading ...