Appendix to Observations on the contracted intestinum rectum; containing some additional facts relative to that complaint; with several cases, and two engravings. / By W. White, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

  • William White
Date:
1813
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Credit: Appendix to Observations on the contracted intestinum rectum; containing some additional facts relative to that complaint; with several cases, and two engravings. / By W. White, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whilst Mrs. W. remained in Bath, (which was about a fortnight) she appeared to be consider*- ably relieved, the evacuations passed more easily, and there was scarcely any discharge of blood. Although 1 requested, I have not heard of the pa¬ tient since* CASE III. Feb. 1812, E. Morgan, an unmarried wo¬ man, sixty-three years of age, complained of having been subject to pains about the os sacrum shooting down the hips, between four and five years. She had been always of a costive habit of body, seldom having any evacuation for four or five days, and not then without the aid of a strong purgative medicine. About a year ago she was attacked with a sudden haemorrhage, which she supposed to have been a return of the catamenia in a most extraor- t. dinary and violent manner; but on the haemorrhage recurring shortly after, she was convinced the dis¬ charge proceeded from the rectum; ever since
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