Observations on haemorrhoidal excrescences / [Sir James Earle].

  • James Earle
Date:
1790]
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Credit: Observations on haemorrhoidal excrescences / [Sir James Earle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    generally adopted. During the laft ten years of Mr. Pott’s life he had many oppor¬ tunities of performing this operation; moft of the patients I attended with him, and found that feveral of them had previoufly confulted other eminent furgeons from whom they had not met with a propofition for a radical cure; in others the difeafe had been abfolutely abandoned as an incurable cancer. For thefe reafons Mr. Pott thought it a fubjeCt well worthy of the confideration of practitioners. It is certainly a difeafe which, whoever labours tinder, mu ft lead a miferable exiftence, con- fequently every attempt towards the relief of it muft be proportionably valuable, I there-, fore conceive that a few hints on this fubjeCt will not be an improper appendix to the • foregoing treatife, or unacceptable to the reader, As I profefs only to give a Iketch of the difeafe, and fuch an account of our author’s treatment of it, as I can called from me¬ mory, a perfed hiftory will not be ex¬ pected from me. I can only undertake to point out its leading characters, and thofe circumftances in the operation which chiefly deferve attention; and fincerely regret that they
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