A practical essay on stricture of the rectum; illustrated by cases, showing the connection of that disease with prolapsus of the rectum, irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs, and of the uterus, fistula, &c.; to which is now added, some practical observations on piles, and the haemorrhoidal excrescence / by Frederick Salmon.

  • Salmon, Frederick, 1796-1868.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A practical essay on stricture of the rectum; illustrated by cases, showing the connection of that disease with prolapsus of the rectum, irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs, and of the uterus, fistula, &c.; to which is now added, some practical observations on piles, and the haemorrhoidal excrescence / by Frederick Salmon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    CASE XXX. , Esq. age 40.] June^, 1826.—Had been for many years subject to confined bowels^ his motions passing with difficulty and pain^ or pro- fusely relaxed. He was frequently subject to hsemorrhage from piles of many years standing. His digestion was impaired, and he was distressed with pain in the stomach, and in the course of the colon, after eating the slightest meal. He had also a discharge from the urethra, which had existed several months. Two of his brothers had been attended for stricture in the rectum; his sis- ter had been the subject of frequent 7niscarriages., and his mother died of disease of the uterus; having for years previously been subject to extremely con- fined bowels; during the latter period of her life, she commonly passed a week and ten days together without voiding any evacuation. Upon examining the rectum immediately after the bowels had been relieved, I found a considera- ble mass of piles, a portion of which I removed by the knife. When the parts were perfectly healed, I passed a bougie, and discovered a stricture at seven inches and a half, through which I passed number seven with difficulty; its introduction