DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE COLON

The purpose of this book is to describe some of the recent advances that have been made in our understanding of colonic physiology and their relation to the causation and to the symptoms of diverticular disease of the colon. In particular, the traditional and current views as to the actiology and to the pathogenesis of the disease are discussed at length as they form the basis of the modern management of diverticular disease. The conservative treatment of the condition by dietary means is dealt with more fully than are the complications of true inflammatory diverticulitis because the latter have been described many times elsewhere and are dealt with in Bentley Colcock’s excellent monograph, “Diverticular Disease of the Colon”.