A Study of Intestinal Stasis

not only aimed at mechanical cleansing of the gastro-intestinal tract from mouth to anus and nasal passages from anterior nares to nasopharynx, but they also helped the performer to develop his gastro-intestinal musculature, together with a certain amount of volitional control of these so called involuntary muscles. With the advent of bacteriology although the conception of disease and its cause has changed radically, the role of intestinal stasis in inducing a morbid condition in the body where the pathogenic bacteria are easily grafted has been sufficiently recognised. Thus in the experimental production of cholera in young guinea-pigs the animals acquire the disease only when intestinal _ stasis is artificially induced. The author in his neat little article very ably establishes the cause of stasis at the distal end of the intestine, at the junction of the pelvic colon with the rectum, and devises