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Colitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Alfred W. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Rainhill Asylum, Lancashire

Extract

By colitis one understands a disease characterised anatomically by an ulcerative or membranous affection of the large intestine, and signalised clinically by acute sanguinolent or muco-purulent diarrhóa, plus pyrexia and prostration.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1898 

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