Edwin J. Kepler

The diarrhea of the pancreatic insufficiency

to the patient those foods which he should eat rather than to place emphasis, as has been done for generations, on those foods which he should not eat. Dr. Jones raised the question of disturbance of the colon in relation to deficiency states. In two of our cases we found evidence of chronic ulcerative colitis. What the relationship may be between disease of the colon and deficiency states, in other words, which is primary and which is secondary, is impossible to state in many instances.