Fistula in ano : a double case, one treated by the knife, the other by the elastic ligature / by C.F. Maunder.
- Maunder, Charles Frederick, 1832-1879.
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Fistula in ano : a double case, one treated by the knife, the other by the elastic ligature / by C.F. Maunder. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![those who will on no terms submit to a cutting operation, as well as for others of haemorrhagic diathesis. Also, for certain instances in which dhe sinus being very long and its wall thick, severe and somewhat inaccessible bleeding might be expected if the knife were used. The patient who elects to be submitted to the ligature must on no account be allowed to imagine that its action is always painless, and should be warned that the period of conva- lescence may be greatly protracted. [All who took 'part in the discussion on this case, at the Clinical Society, were of opinion that the ligature should be used only under exceptional circumstances.—Lancet, June 5, 1875.] PARDON AND SON, PRINTERS; PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22315196_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
