The culprit was intestinal stasis, leading to that horror of horrors, autointoxication.
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Apparently, Lane had had trouble publishing in " British Medical Journal " and " The Lancet " his first articles on chronic intestinal stasis.
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There, " chronic intestinal stasis received its deathblow " when a Fellow's severely antagonistic speech, apparently influencing the course of Lane's career, preempted Lane's opening a surgery school.
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Famed for an appendectomy saving England's monarch, Lane warned of " chronic intestinal stasis " its " flooding of the circulation with filthy material ", thus autointoxication warnings taken seriously by the public.