A Case of Ulcerative Colitis

Abstract

This was a case of chronic ulcerative colitis of a 26 year old female with clinical symptoms, rectoscopical, bacteriological, roentgenological and autopsy findings characteristic to the disease. Antibiotics, cortisone, ACTH and other medicaments were employed in the treatment without any satisfactory result. The antibiotics were regarded to be the cause of a cross infection of the chest observed in this case. The ineffectiveness of antibiotic therapy, together with the neurotic symptoms in this patient, suggested a psychoneurological origin of the disease. Lobotomy would reasonably be taken into consideration in the therapy of this disease, as reported by Levy.