Excerpt from Chronic Colitis: Its Causation, Diagnosis and Treatment
During the past fifteen or twenty years there has been a marked increase in the prevalence of chronic colitis. It is a condition which now shares with appendicitis the most important position among those diseases which, in the absence of discovery of any unavoidable universal alteration in human conditions, we regard ourselves as obliged to accept as the inevitable concomitants of advancing civilisation.
That appendicitis has largely increased during the period under consideration there is not the least possible doubt. In the case of chronic colitis, however, although an absolute increase is, if not equally certain, at least highly probable, the apparently greatly increased incidence is partly due to an improved capability of recognition. In no sense can chronic colitis be called a "new disease." The literature of the period abounds with admirable evidence of its prevalence among the aristocracy during the reign of Louis XIV.
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