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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    [The following Case, which was written by the patient him¬ self, forms another striking proof of the truth of what I T9 ib: have before suggested, respecting the disease being so frequently overlooked.] >:.£*] noocf ovurf elowod dll ciUd ■ CASE IX. ?rod ; loDod lloamifi db< T u I am now in the 36th year of my age. As long as eight years ago I found some inconvenience on voiding my stools; but it is about five years since my disease gave me real distress. The first symp¬ tom was costiveness. In the mornings, after having taken tea I was obliged to go to stool, and only able to discharge a few hard fasces at a time; so that by going six or eight times in one morning, I hardly had so much evacuated as one good stool would s amount to with a sound person. I was farther fre- Sj * o* * ' ,v v~ quently incommoded with spasms, which at any time of the day would attack me on a sudden, and it was with the greatest difficulty and uneasiness that I could resist the tendency of these spasms, which was a sudden.expulsion of fieccs. u Medical gentlemen, whom 1 consulted at this time, considered my complaint as a mere obstruct
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