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Man should strive to have his intestines relaxed all the days of his life.
Moses Maimonides, AD 1135-1204
A good set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), AD 1818-1885Toward a new understanding of the functional gastrointestinal disorders
For centuries, physicians and historians have recognized that it
is common for maladies to afflict the intestinal tract, producing symptoms of pain, nausea, vomiting, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, difficult passage of food or feces, or any combination.1
When these symptoms are experienced as severe, or when they impact on
daily life, those afflicted often attribute the symptoms to an illness
and seek medical care. Traditionally, the physicians caring for these
patients will search for inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic, and
other structural abnormalities to make a specific diagnosis and offer
specific treatment. Yet as has been common in medical
practice,2 when no
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