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Posted bysaucein/reads-May 16, 2016 at 11:14 AMΔ

The Long, Frustrating History Of Constipation

Everybody Is Constipated, Nobody Is Constipated

Shit happens, except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't, we get worried. Over the centuries, constipation has gone by many delicate euphemisms, but the problem itself refuses to budge. The Egyptian Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest books in the world, promoted a theory of disease that begins with toxic, undigested food poisoning the body from the gut outward.

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