Remarks on the disease, commonly called a fistula in ano / [Percivall Pott].

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1767
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Credit: Remarks on the disease, commonly called a fistula in ano / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tipon them, than to their true and real character: among thefe, my prefent fubjeCt is a moil glaring proof. \. The cuftom of giving the appellation of Fiftula to every impoftumation, and to every collection of matter formed near to the Anus, has, by conveying a falfe notion of them, been productive of fuch methods of treating them, as (though, perhaps, fuited to fuch idea) are diametrically oppofite to thofe which ought to be purfued : fuch as have often rendered thofe cafes tedious and painful, which might have been cured eafily and expeditioufly; and confequently fuch as have brought difgrace on our art, and unneceffary trouble on mankind. 4 A small orifice or outlet from a large or deep cavity, difcharging a thin gleet, or fames, made a confiderable part of the idea, which our anceftors had of a fiftulous fore, wherever feated. With the term fiftulous they always conne&ed a notion of ealloft- ty; and, therefore, whenever they found fuch a kind of opening yielding fuch fort of difcharge, and attended with any degree of induration, they called the complaint a Fiftula. Imagining this callofity to be a difeafed
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