On the subject of colitis. W. Zweig (Deut. m. W., 1927, No. 3)

Abstract

Chronic colitis never develops from acute catarrh of the intestines, but always inadvertently, with constitution and nutritional status playing an important role in the etiology. Topographically, a distinction is made between ascending colitis, sigmoiditis, proctitis, and diffuse colitis, and among the cases of sigmoiditis-sigmoiditis mucosa, haemorragica, and atrophicans.