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Inner Hygiene: Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society

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Inner Hygiene: Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society - Whorton, James C
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Inner Hygiene explores the serious health threat of constipation, and discusses the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures that have been developed to save people from the toxic effects of intestinal regularity. The book examines the evolution over the last two centuries of the belief that constipation is a disease brought on by an unnatural lifestyle of urban, industrial society. Particular attention is given to the many constipation therapies that people have used, including laxatives, enemas, mineral ...

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Inner Hygiene: Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195135817

Hardcover