The culprit was intestinal stasis, leading to that horror of horrors, autointoxication.
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He also believed that autointoxication could be the root cause of certain mental disorders.
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The autointoxication principle became an alleged myth scientifically discredited, while interventions to subvert it were deemed quackery.
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Autointoxication meant that toxins from backed-up, rotting wastes were seeping into their bloodstreams, poisoning their bodies and minds.
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Besides heredity, focal infection and autointoxication was psychiatry's predominant explanation of schizophrenia near the turn of the 20th century.
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Lane's explanation of the association between constipation and illness as due to autointoxication is generally regarded by gastroenterologists as wholly fictitious.
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German researchers ostensibly repudiated the autointoxication principle, and yet by using different terminology supported it circuitously . became first to use the term " autointoxication ",
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German researchers ostensibly repudiated the autointoxication principle, and yet by using different terminology supported it circuitously . became first to use the term " autointoxication ",
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This resurrects the old medical concept of " autointoxication " which was orthodox doctrine up to the end of the 19th century but which has now been discredited.
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Such views on the colon, constipation, and autointoxication were standard in the medical profession, yet disagreement raged over explanation and intervention, thus controversy trailing Lane's surgeries.