Observations on some of the principal diseases of the rectum and anus; particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and the fistula in ano / [Thomas Copeland].

  • Thomas Copeland
Date:
1810
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Credit: Observations on some of the principal diseases of the rectum and anus; particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and the fistula in ano / [Thomas Copeland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I am sorry to say that, although I have very repeatedly succeeded to the utmost of my wishes in curing the disease by the ap- plication of a ligature, this success has not been so uniform, as to establish it in my mind as an operation always to be recom- mended. In one instance the patient very nar- rowly escaped death, in another, very serious symptoms were produced by the operation, and in a third case, the operation was ac- » tualiy fatal ; I have, also heard of one or two other instances where the life of the » patient was destroyed by tying off the haemorrhoidal excrescence. 1’anus et tirant du cote de la Eesse.—Obs. Chirurg. torn. e. p. 226. Here then is an operation to cure the disease, and an operation still more painful which the former one has rendered necessary : surely the surgeon, or rather the patient, will exclaim with the illustrious Cains Marius, when he had, with great courage, suffered a very similar operation : “ Ofu to Trier ahyribCvOa ovx Plutarchi Opera. Ed. Par. 1624.
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