RT Journal
A1 BASTEDO WA
T1 MUcous colitis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD February 23
VO 92
IS 8
SP 601
OP 605
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700340001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700340001001
AB Mucous colitis is a malady about the character of which there is much difference of opinion and about the etiology of which there is no agreement. Therefore it can be defined merely as "a chronic condition in which the bowel forms abnormal mucus in large quantities." Not in all cases but in the severer ones it is accompanied by intestinal toxemia and various nervous or psychic phenomena, and to these the difficulties of its proper comprehension may be largely attributed. Though usually associated with constipation, it may exist with diarrhea. At times it may produce abdominal pain or soreness or even intense colic, but the disease in severe form is often present without colic. It occurs in both males and females of all ages, and, though a common cause of invalidism, would seem to be frequently overlooked.DIAGNOSIS 
    Neither constipation nor intestinal putrefaction nor abdominal pain nor a psychoneurosis tells