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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    sized rectum bougie, and not less than ten or eleven inches in length. I took my leave, advising the occasional use of the bougie. I did not see this gentleman for several months, when he sent for me in consequence of the bougie having been drawn up so high in the rectum, that he could not extract it. Some time elapsed before I arrived; in the interim he had voided the instrument rolled up like a ball. It gave him most acute pain in passing the sphincter, but he suffered no other inconvenience from the accident. Nov. 1826.—This patient said he had not en- joyed such health these ten years ; that he never took any physic, not requiring it; he occasionally suffered from giddiness, but to nothing like the extent he did prior to seeing me. He passed a bougie himself every month or six weeks. This case particularly evinces the irritation which may ensue from the too frequent introduc- tion of the bougie. CASE III. , Esq., age 58. Nov. 7th, 1824.]—Com- plained of pain in the head, with giddiness and