To the treatment of diarrhea

The problem of treatment of diarrhea, in spite of classical works on this question by Ad. Schmidta, Noorden, etc., cannot be considered to be completely solved until now. Dietotherapy, which here with good reason occupies the first place, is intended first of all for treatment of diarrhea of enterogenic character; and meanwhile clinical experience teaches us that diarrhea is often the result not only of disease of the intestine itself, but also of disease of the whole organ system, or even of the whole organism - a disease in which diarrhea is only an external expression of those deep changes which occur in the organism. Naturally, in such cases, diet therapy alone cannot lead to the goal and ensure treatment success. Obviously, new ways of treating such forms of diarrhea are needed, ways that follow from the modern understanding of these forms of diarrhea as an expression of the disease of the whole organism.