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.

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    lessened, till at last, without any application being made to it, it got perfectly well. His bowels acted every day fully and freely without medicine ; he passed a number eight bougie every ten or twenty days. July, 1S27.—I received an account of this patient, his health had been uninterruptedly good ever since I took my leave of him. CASE XXXVII. —Esq., age 50.] Aug. 31, 1822.—Com- plained of acute pain in the head, particularly at the back part, attended with giddiness, which he had experienced more or less for years past; of pain in his chest, with a sense of heat and soreness in the stomach after eating; and of pain through the region of the colon, and at the lower part of the sacrum. His bowels, which in general were confined, were much relaxed, and a quantity of blood and slime passed in his motions; his coun- tenance was sallow, and he was altogether much out of health. Had consulted a variety of medical men, the majority of whom decided that he laboured under disease of the liver, for which he had taken great quantities of mercury. I advised alterative doses of mercury; occasional doses of lenitive electuary, the use of bitters three hours after each