A practical essay on stricture of the rectum ... showing the connexion ... with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon].
- Salmon, Frederick, 1796-1868.
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical essay on stricture of the rectum ... showing the connexion ... with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cervix being in a state of ulceration. She had been taking calomel and cicuta, under the direc- tion of her medical friends, who considered her case a cancerous affection of the uterus. The rectum had never before been even examined. I advised an enema of warm gruel with twenty drops of laudanum every night and morning, the daily use of castor oil, and the hip-bath, with occasional loss of blood by cupping, from the region of the loins. REMARKS. ‘The connexion, in this instance, of the disease in the rectum with that in the uterus is obvious; it is not possible to decide which was the pri- marily affected part, though, from the symptoms the patient narrated to me, I should be induced to believe the original disease was in the rectum. I have never attempted the introduction of any kind of bougie. CASE XV. Mrs. , age 33.] Dec. 30, 1820.—Had been an invalid for years, frequently suffering from pain in the lower part of the back and in the loins, and from head-ache. Her bowels were ir- regular, sometimes purged, at other times much](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30357494_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
