BACON, HARRY ELLICOTT. Anus, rectum, sigmoid colon; diagnosis and treatment.

Samuel Yellen (A); 12Aug63; R320425. YEOMANS, FRANK C. Proctology; a treatise on the malformations, injuries, and diseases of the rectum, anus, and pelvic colon.

The large intestine passes upwards on the right side as the ascending colon, until the under side of the liver is reached, where it passes to the left side, as the transverse colon, below the stomach.

And when he refers to the "coma, colum, perydus," he is harking back to the classical divisions of the rhythmical members of a sentence: the "comma, colon, et periodus."

He performed this task with such conscientiousness, and made so many minor alterationshe changed most of those flighty colons to more conventional semicolonsthat the confidential clerk swore terribly when he glanced at the proofs before handing them to a boy, with instructions to remove three-quarters of the offending emendations.