METHODS RELATING TO THE MODIFICATION 

 AND CONTROL OF BACTERIAL PROCESSES 

 CONCERNED IN CHRONIC EXCESSIVE IN- 

 TESTINAL PUTREFACTION 



THE difficulty of formulating measures for the control 

 of the bacterial processes concerned with the occurrence 

 of chronic excessive intestinal putrefaction is obvious. 

 No two cases that come under observation are quite 

 alike ; hence specific measures which appear appropriate 

 in one case cannot be recommended without modifica- 

 tion in another. It becomes, therefore, almost impossi- 

 ble to describe a method of treatment with all the 

 detailed modifications that are necessary in order to 

 cover adequately the specific cases with which one has 

 to deal in practice. Our store of experience is as yet so 

 incomplete that it is impossible to predict in many instances 

 the outcome of the measures proposed. This is equivalent 

 to the admission that the therapeutical side of the subject 

 of chronic intestinal putrefaction is., still ^in a largely 

 experimental stage. It will require many years of 

 careful observation associated with a large amount of 

 experimental work to enable the practitioner to place 

 his methods of treatment on a really scientific basis. 

 Nevertheless there are certain general therapeutical 

 guides which, though by no means adequate for the 

 direction of the practitioner in individual cases, are 



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