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01-09-2016 | Editorial

From misbelieve to proofs in transanal irrigation for functional bowel problems

Author: P. Christensen

Published in: Techniques in Coloproctology | Issue 9/2016

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The Roman writer Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) wrote in his encyclopedia about the knowledge of his time, how the ancient Egyptians took lessons from their sacred Ibis bird which at the banks of the Nile took the flood water with its curved beak and inserted the water into its anus to wash its intestines. References to the use of transanal irrigation can be found in the Papyrus Ebers (app. 1500 BC) and the Chester Beatty VI papyri (app. 1200 BC) [1]. …

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Title: From misbelieve to proofs in transanal irrigation for functional bowel problems
Author: P. Christensen
Publication date: 01-09-2016
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Techniques in Coloproctology / Issue 9/2016
Print ISSN: 1123-6337
Electronic ISSN: 1128-045X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10151-016-1510-y

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