Intestinal Irrigation: Why, How and When to Flush the Colon | A Vintage Guide to Digestive Hygiene, Colonic Cleansing, and Hydrotherapy

Alcinous B. Jamison

ISBN 10: 802834013X / ISBN 13: 9788028340131

Published by Sharp Ink, 2023

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Intestinal Irrigation: Why, How and When to Flush the Colon | A Vintage Guide to Digestive Hygiene, Colonic Cleansing, and Hydrotherapy | Alcinous B. Jamison | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | Sharp Ink | EAN 9788028340131 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, 170 00 PRAGUE, TSCHECHIEN, kristoferpaetau[at]gmail[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intestinal Irrigation: Why, How and When to Flush the Colon | A Vintage Guide to Digestive Hygiene, Colonic Cleansing, and Hydrotherapy
• Publisher: Sharp Ink
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 802834013X
• ISBN 13: 9788028340131
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 8D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 8 millimeters depth
• Weight: 262 grams
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Synopsis

Intestinal Irrigation: Why, How and When to Flush the Colon is a practical treatise on colonic cleansing, presenting intestinal irrigation as both preventive regimen and therapeutic intervention. Its style is didactic, procedural, and reformist: the title itself announces a tripartite logic of rationale, method, and occasion. The book belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature of hygiene, hydrotherapy, and "autointoxication," when digestive regularity was often treated as central to bodily and moral health. Alcinous B. Jamison writes from within a medical culture fascinated by sanitation, internal cleanliness, and the management of chronic disorders through disciplined bodily habits. Though modern biographical traces of Jamison are limited, the work suggests an author conversant with the clinical and popular health debates of his time, especially the belief that the colon could become a site of systemic poisoning if neglected. Readers interested in the history of medicine, alternative therapeutics, naturopathy, or the cultural meanings of cleanliness will find this book especially valuable. It should be read less as current medical advice than as a revealing document of its era: a compact, earnest, and historically instructive argument for one of modern health culture's most persistent practices.