The 45-year-old man was constipated, did not excrete for 3 years, accumulated 36 pounds of feces in his body, and was suffocated by feces
John, an American born in the early 19th century, was born with a disease that was associated with megacolon. However, at that time he was still young and the excretory problem was not obvious. Given the level of medical care at the time, there was no special solution to the disease.
But after 20 years of normal life, John began to realize the problem of bowel movements. He has no intention of defecating all day, and if he does not deliberately excrete forcefully, he can almost always not defecate. But John didn't pay much attention to this issue during this period, because he had so much to do.
In fact, John is optimistic, cheerful, and because of his work as a circus performer, he knows how to bring happiness to others. Whether it is speaking or acting, it has a sense of humor.
For a long time, John almost replaced food with water, but there was still no way to excrete it normally. Moreover, because the physical exertion of work is very serious, his body cannot eat at all.
Eventually, John followed his doctor's new advice: take excretory medications. This was almost a boon for him, and immediately after taking the drug, he immediately felt the happiness of excretion by a normal person.
However, this was not a long-term solution, by the time John was 45, he had almost lost his bowel function, and the doctor had no choice, and as a result, John did not excrete for three years, but he had to eat, and "only in but not out" made John feel tormented
Such days, John has passed about 25 years, he sits on the toilet almost all the time every day except work, because there is no intention to defecate, and he must rely on sitting on the toilet for a long time to achieve the purpose of fecal discharge.
Since then, John has fallen into a terrible circle: eating every day, but never defecating. Because he couldn't pass the stool, his stomach grew bigger, and his stomach was bloated, hard, painful, and sometimes even vomited.
With John's physical state, it is no longer possible to continue working normally, and he can only recuperate at home. The whole person began to lose weight, so he was very sleepy, because he was afraid of stomach bloating, he ate less and less. This also made him lack his energy and sometimes even fainted because he lost his length.
After John reached middle age, he had completely lost the ability to defecate, and no matter what John did, he could not successfully defecate, and the requirements of survival required him to eat constantly. In the following three years, John never had a single bowel movement, and for this reason, he also passed away because he could not defecate.
After John's death, the local doctors also took this matter very seriously, after all, no doctor could solve the problem that John faced. In order to find out the true cause of his constipation and prevent more people from experiencing such symptoms in the future, the doctors also asked John's family to allow them to perform an autopsy on John's body.
After obtaining permission from John's family, these doctors also began to study John's body, and to their shock, John's body contained a full 36 pounds of feces. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, doctors would have found it hard to believe that this was really happening. In John's body, his intestines have mutated to a certain extent, and if an uninformed person sees John's intestines, he may think that he has seen some strange beast.
After the doctors performed the dissection, they also sent John's large intestine to the Matt Museum for collection. In American society, the existence of the Matt Museum is specifically used to store some deformed organs of the human body, and many doctors in the United States will also see more peculiar cases through the Matt Museum.
For many doctors at the time, John's tragic experience also led them to pay attention to the condition of constipation. In the later development of medical technology, constipation gradually became a relatively easy problem to solve, and John became the only constipation patient in the world who was "suffocated". #聊聊科学与哲学 #
