[Mortality in Muggia in the upper Adriatic, from 1886 to 1918.].

Muggia is a town situated between Trieste and Koper in the upper Adriatic. It belonged to the Venetian Republic of San Marco and then, after the Napoleonic Wars, it came under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Originally a small fishing village, it experienced industrial and demographic growth with the development of its shipyards, and in this it followed, albeit on a smaller scale, the fate of the nearby city of Trieste.

Colonic transit after fibre supplementation in patients with haemorrhoids.

Patients with haemorrhoids often complain of disturbed defaecation which might correspond either to too slow or too fast colonic transit. Colonic transit was determined using a new technique as the distribution of radiopaque markers on a film after a daily intake of 20 markers over 10 days. Nineteen out-patients with a history of haemorrhoids participated in the study.