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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    they referable each other in many circum-* fiances: both are hard, fwelled, and painful; both at times furnifh a difagreeable fanious difcharge; in both cafes the patients have the fame leaden pallid countenance. There are however iome leading features of diftinc- tion which may be noticed; in the cancerous protrulions the bafis is generally harder, more incompreffible, and broader; and has its origin higher up in the rectum, commonly occupy¬ ing the whole circumference of the inteftine, which fo ftraitens the paffage that the feces are expelled with difficulty, and are com- prelfed into a fiat or angular form. In the cancerous affection of the redtum, the parts fometimes feel foft like a rotten fubftance. The pain of the cancerous, or malignant fungi, is unremitting; whether they are exter¬ nal, or returned within the fphindter, the pa¬ tient is never at perfedt eafe, but complains of fhooting pains in the region of the loins. The pain attending the haemorrhoidal tumors is fometimes great while they are external; but when this arifes from the ftridture of the fphindter, if they can be returned within the redtum, it foon ceafes. When they have been long protruded in an
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