A practical essay on stricture of the rectum : illustrated by cases, showing the connection of that disease with prolapsus of the bowel, piles, fistula, affections of the urinary organs, and of the womb, &c. / by Frederick Salmon.

  • Salmon, Frederick, 1796-1868.
Date:
1833
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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 bowel, piles, fistula, affections of the urinary organs, and of the womb, &c. / by Frederick Salmon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    dually lessened, till at last, without any applica- tion 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, 1827.—I received an account of this pa- tient, his health had been uninterruptedly good ever since I took my leave of him. CASE II. ——, Esq. age 60. Aug. 31st, 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 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 con- fined, were much relaxed, and a quantity of blood and slime passed in his motions; his countenance was sallow, and he was altogether much out of health. He had consulted a variety of medical men, the majority of whom decided that he la- boured under disease of the liver, for which he had taken great quantities of mercury. I ad- vised alterative doses of mercury; occasional x 2