Observations on strictures of the rectum and other affections which diminish the capacity of that intestine : including spasmodic constriction of the anus, the haemorrhoidal tumours (called piles) excrescences, and the prolapsus ani and the mode of treatment ... / by W. White.

  • White, William.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Observations on strictures of the rectum and other affections which diminish the capacity of that intestine : including spasmodic constriction of the anus, the haemorrhoidal tumours (called piles) excrescences, and the prolapsus ani and the mode of treatment ... / by W. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    described as occurring in the stomach. This stale is very apt to run into inflammation, and, is I believe a frequent origin of strictures in the intestine.” Though I perfectly agree with Dr. Parry, that an inflamed state of the mucous membrane, may sometimes prove an exciting cause of stricture, by inducing a spasmodic action of the muscular coat of the intestine ; yet, I am convinced from attentive observation, that a disordered state of the colon, very similar to what he describes, is frequently the effect of stricture near the termination of the colon, or in the rectum. The ceasing of these symptoms when the me¬ chanical obstruction is overcome, affords the strongest proof that the opinion is well founded—this fact having been witnessed in a variety of cases. As Dr. Parry very justly remarks, the secondary affection is often mistaken for the primary, and this, I apprehend to be another reason why strictures of the rectum are so frequently overlooked; for it often happens that the patient suffers more pain and uneasiness from a deranged state of the colon, as a consequence of stricture, than at the stricture itself; which is occasioned by the colon being repeatedly distended from accumulation of faeculent matter, owing to the difficulty of the faeces passing through a part naturally too narrow, or become so by the formation of a stricture. Hence the colon is weakened, rendered