author
Thomas Charles Martin
1864–1926
A late-19th-century American physician who wrote specialized medical works on bowel disease and rectal anatomy. His surviving books reflect a practical, clinical style aimed at doctors dealing with difficult digestive disorders.
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Obstipation : a practical monograph on the disorders and diseases of the rectal valve
by Thomas Charles Martin
About the author
Little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm, but library records identify him as Thomas Charles Martin, born in 1864, and his medical writings place him in the United States in the 1890s. One work, New Evidence That the Rectal Valve Is an Anatomical Fact, names him as an M.D. in Cleveland, Ohio.
He is best known for Obstipation: A Practical Monograph on the Disorders and Diseases of the Rectal Valve, published in 1899. The book focuses on chronic constipation and related rectal conditions, showing his interest in a narrow but serious area of medical practice.
Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, it is safest to remember him through his published work: a doctor-author whose books preserve a snapshot of specialized medical thinking at the end of the 19th century.