Calcium carbonate and constipation: a historical review of medical mythopoeia
Clemens, J.D.; Feinstein, A.R.
Gastroenterology 72(5 Pt 1): 957-961
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-5085 PMID: 191329 Document Number: 122617
Regardless of whether the issue can be dismissed as another example of medical myth making and regardless of whether further investigation dispels the mythopoeia, the claim that calcium carbonate currently seems to be in the category of the many therapeutic contentions for which acceptable evidence of efficacy does not exist.
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