Ulcerative colitis in the tropics.

Ulcerative colitis as a separate entity was first described by Wilks and Moxan (1875). Idiopathic ulcerative colitis has been defined as an acute and chronic inflammatory and ulcerative disease of the rectum and colon of unknown aetiology Many reports on various aspects of the disease have appeared in the Western literature (Bargen, 1930 ; Felsen and