Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus; particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano / [Thomas Copeland].
- Thomas Copeland
- Date:
- 1824
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus; particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano / [Thomas Copeland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the bougie than any of the other kinds ; but it is attended with more irritation of the parts, so much as to render any exa- mination extremely painful; and there is also commonly a more copious discharge of a thin foetid matter from the anus, J] have twice seen the disease under this form, and it has each time been preceded or accompanied by the hzemorrhoidal ex- crescence: in one instance a communica- tion took place between the bladder and rectum, which closed under the use of the bougie. It has also been described by Ese netus*, and noticed by Morgagni. It seems probable that this kind of ob- struction is produced by an actual adhesion, or union of the parietes of the gut to each other. The rectum is inflamed, from hze- morrhoids, or from some other cause, and coagulable lymph is thrown out on its * Loe. citat. (es](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33285317_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
