Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus : particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano / by Thomas Copeland.
- Thomas Copeland
- Date:
- 1814
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus : particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano / by Thomas Copeland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![]1 poseit, from appeamnce, to enjoy full health. But the ravages of the disease now begin to be felt in their effect on the general habit. Frequent eructations of air confined in the intestines, added to the other symptoms, torment the patient, and render his life miserable. This symptom is so constant, that if it did not occur also in affections of the kidnies, and other complaints, it might be regarded as pathognomonic', but I think it prevails to a greater degree in this than in any other disease. At this period abscesses very frequently form in the neighbourhood of the anus, and sometimes break into the vaeina in the female, and the faeces are discharged through the fistulous orifice. In the male, an adhesion takes place v ith the bladder, and the abscess* discharges itself * Petit OEuvres Posthura. tom. ii. p. 93, the con- trary also occasionally takes ]Dlace, and urinary calculi](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21301001_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
