Fistula, haemorrhoids, painful ulcer, stricture, prolapsus and other diseases of the rectum : their diagnosis and treatment.
- William Allingham
- Date:
- 1879
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Credit: Fistula, haemorrhoids, painful ulcer, stricture, prolapsus and other diseases of the rectum : their diagnosis and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![piles, strong carbolic is a very good application, as also is the per- or subsulpliate of iron in the form of an ointment (3SS to 3] of unguentum cetacei is the strength I employ) or as a suppository (gr. ij c. gr. v cacao butter). It acts as a most powerful astringent; it is not cauterant; it causes no pain—in fact, in infl.an>ed haemorrhoids it seems to act as a sedative ; it arrests haemorrhage with absolute certainty. I have with this remedy effected many cures, and materially relieved numbers of cases when an operation has not been desirable, or when the patient was too nervous to submit to one. I am confident now from a large experience that it is a most valuable agent in the treatment of many rectal affections. Rouse and Co., the chemists in Wigmore Street, prepared for me an excellent Liquor Ferri Subsulphatis, and I found it answer admirably as a styptic and astringent in small ulcerations as well as capillary haemorrhoids. I may as well remark here that the capillary hsemorrhoid, or the pile with a capillary surface, is the only form likely to be benefited by the application of nitric acid or acid nitrate of mercury. Ten years ago, when this treatment was in vogue, it was fi^e- quently used in the most reckless and unscientific manner, quite regardless of how much it really could do. I used to see at the hospital patients with large, fully developed rectal tumours, to which acid had been applied half a dozen or more times, causing great pain, and with the result of no real curative impression being made upon the disease. I am sorry to say this method is not yet quite obsolete, for I saw with Dr Playfair last year an elderly lady with large piles, who had suffered very severely from several applications of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21454620_0114.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
