Observations on the diseases of the rectum ... / by T.B. Curling.

  • Curling, T. B (Thomas Blizard)
Date:
1876
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    society, or ride in a public conveyance, or travel by I rail. ; Sir B. Brodie^ and Mr. Colles of Dublin« regarded tliese growths occurring in stricture as constituting a peculiar form of the disease. Desault supposed ! that they were of syphilitic origin. A modified ^ view of their syphilitic character has also been taken by M. Gosselin, in a paper,^ founded on the observa- tion of twelve cases, all females of loose life.^ Without regarding the disease in the rectum in i these cases as specific or as a remote consequence of i syphilis, he considered the stricture and the growths ■ from the mucous membrane to be the result of an. j extension of inflammation from primary disease near ] the anus to the rectum. In several cases of strictm^e \ combined with these excrescences on the mucous surface of the bowel, which have fallen under my notice, there has been no trace of constitutional syphilis, nor any other evidence of the rectal changes j originating in specific disease. This condition of i the rectum was well marked in Cases 26 and 27, which were clearly not of syphilitic origin. I believe, that this state of the rectum originates in chronic j inflammation of the mucous membrane giving rise j to a profuse secretion of a muco-purulent fluid at the ! lower part of the gut, a state somewhat analogous to chronic cystitis. The inflammation and discharge j lead to the production of external piles, and ex- ! crescences and hypertrophies of the mucous mem- ' Lond. Med. Gazette, vol. xvi. ' 8 Dublin Quarterly Journal of Med. Science, Feb. 1854. Archives Generales de Medecine, Dec. 1854. , ^ Mr. Colles gives a table of sixteen cases, and it is remarkable i tbat thirteen were males.