Colon as Site of Focal Infection in Chronic Pyelitis, Cystitis and Prostatitis

On the subjects of intestinal flora, intestinal stasis, lazy colon and intestinal autointoxication with its ramifications, the literature is naturally enormous. Also the vast number of bacteria, not only species but genera that may be present in the so-called intestinal flora, are superseded in numbers only by the many scientific and pseudoscientific articles written about these enteric organisms. Commendable work is being done in isolating these bacteria, and as in astronomy experts with improved telescopes, specializing in one corner of a constellation, are ever discovering new stars, so bacteriologic specialists, confining their time to the study of one class of organisms, by special intricate methods of culture are continually isolating more species of the particular genus. For instance, Bauer,¹working with Meyer in an adjacent laboratory to us at Hooper Foundation, isolated the seventh tetanus bacillus from human feces. With scores of bacteriologists specializing on the various genera, making