The immediate and painless cure of haemorrhoids and prolapsus / by George Edgelow.

  • Edgelow, George.
Date:
[1890]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The immediate and painless cure of haemorrhoids and prolapsus / by George Edgelow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTERNAL HEMORRHOIDS. Internal Piles are most varied in their nature and appearance. Sometimes they are solitary, but more frequently by far they are composed of several masses of distended and thickened blood-vessels and deposits of fibre. They give rise to very numerous symptoms, and hardly any spot in the body is free from their disturbing influence. Sometimes there is loss of walking power, which is immediately re- gained on the cure of the pile. I had one very marked case of this in an old gentleman, who volunteered the state- ment to me of his recovery of walking B