“…Cortisol itself was well absorbed from the recta of ulcerative colitis patients (Nabarro, Moxham, Walker & Slater, 1957), whereas the acetate and hemisuccinate were not (Nabarro et al 1957;Asher, 1958;Patterson & McGivney, 1959;Schwartz, Cohn, Bondy, Brodoff, Upton & Spiro, 1958;Truelove, 1958). However, cortisol acetate (Liddle, 1956) and prednisone (Staib, 1961) were absorbed in patients with healthy recta.…”