Volume 13

A dictionary of practical medicine, comprising general pathology, the nature and treatment of diseases, morbid structures and the disorders especially incidental to climates, to the sex, and to the different epochs of life. With ... prescriptions, ... bibliography ... formulae / [James Copland].

Copland, James, 1791-1870

Date:: 1832-1858

Credit: A dictionary of practical medicine, comprising general pathology, the nature and treatment of diseases, morbid structures and the disorders especially incidental to climates, to the sex, and to the different epochs of life. With ... prescriptions, ... bibliography ... formulae / [James Copland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$use of them. Suppositories of coninm or of hen- bane, or of both conjoined, or of opium with camphor, Peruvian balsam, or zinc ointment ; mucilaginous injections, containing the chloride of zinc or creasote, with the solution of opium or Syrup of poppies; and such laxative, emollient, and anodyne enemata as the state of the case may suggest, especially those with warm olive oil, with small quantities of camphor or balsam, will gene- rally afford considerable relief. According to Mr. Canvertr, much benefit is derived from “carefully introducing a hollow tube of elastic ~gum, through which the faeces are drawn off by injecting tepid water.” 116. Of internal remedies, I can add nothing to those recommended for cancer in another place. (See art. Cancer, §§ 29. et seg.) The preparations of iron with narcotics, especially the mistura ferri comp., with liquor potasse, tinctura conil, or tinctura opil, or tinctura camphore comp.; or the iodide of iron in syrup of sarza ; or the pilula ferri composita with the pilula sa- ponis cum opio, may be prescribed and varied according to circumstances. As to resorting to excision of the part when the disease is limited to the anus or lower portion of the rectum, the de- termination should depend upon the peculiarities and complications of the case. ‘This subject is well discussed in the surgical works referred to, and in Mr. Coorer’s Surgical Dictionary. — ( For other diseases connected with the rectum and anus, see articles Dicrstive Cana, Inrestines, He- moRRuOIDS, Hemorruace from the Bowels, and DysrEnTERry. ) BiB.i0oG. AND REFER. — Ortbasius, Synopsis, }. ix. c. 17. — Aétius, Tetral. ii. s. ii. cap. 36. — Paulus /igineta, \. iii. sect. 59. — Ruysch, Observat., No. 95.— Vaughan, in Philosoph. Transact., No. 281. — Payne, in ibid. No. 391.— Madden, in ibid. No. 442. — Sher- mann, in ibid. No. 453.—¥F’. Hoffmann, Consultationes, cent. ii. No. 23.—Wisemann, Chirurgical Treatises. &c. 3d edit. Lond. 1696, p. 234. — Mémoires de l’Acad. de Chirurgie, t. i. p. 540. t. iii. p. 620. — Morgagni, De Sed. et Caus. Morborum, epist. xxxiii. sect.7. — L. H. J. Duchadoz, De Proctostenia, seu de morbosis Intes- tini Recti Angustiis. 4to. Montsp. 1771. — Sandifort, Museum Anatomicum, t.i. p. 255. — De Haen, Rat. Med. Contin. vol. ii. p. 314. — Graham, in Edin. Med. Commentaries, vol. i. p. 464. (The first to employ Bel- lZadonna in Dis. of Rectum and Anus.) — Petit, Vraité des Mal. Chirurg. t. ii. p. 83. — Monteggia, Fasciculi Pathologici, Turin, 1703, p. 91. — Lettsom, in Mem. of Med. Society of London, vol. ii. art. 25. — Sherwin, in ibid. vol. ii. art. 2.—Hodges, in ibid. vol. v. — White, in ibid. vol. vi. art. 17.—M. Baillie, Morbid Anatomy, &c. and Series of Engravings, &c. fascic. iv. t.4. — J.P Frank, De curandis Hom. Morbis, &c. 1. ii. p. 259. — Reil, Fieberlehre, b. ili. p.551, — B. Gooch, in Edin. Med. Comment. vol. ii. p. 373.— Oberteuffer, in Stark’s N. Archiv, b. ii. p. 679. (Carcinoma). — Hey, Practical Observat, chap. ii. (Hacision). — Horn, in Archiv der Pract. Heilk. fiir Schlesien, b. iii. st. 4. n. 2. -IV. Hey, Practical Observations on Surgery, 2d ed. 8vo. Lond. 1810. — A. Portal, Cours d’Anatomie Médicale, t. v. p. 250. — Chevalier, in Transac. of Med. and Chirurz. So- ciety, vol. x. p.401. — H. Hume, Observat. on Cancer, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1805. p. 129. — H. L. Thomas, in Med. and Chirurg. Transact. vol. i. p. 129. — Nasse, Die Schleichende der Entziindung des Mastdarms, in Horn’s Archiv fur Med. Erfahr. b. i. 1817. — A. Monvo, Mor- bid Anatomy of the Gallet, 8vo. p. 347. — J. Howship, Practical Observat. on the Symptoms, Discrimination, and Treatment of some of the common Diseases of the Liver, Intestines, and Anus, 8vo. Lond. 1820, ch. iv.— Desault, GQ&uvres Chirurgicales, &c. vol. iii. p. 380. — Boyer, Dela Fissureou Gercgure del’ Anus, accompagnée du Reserrement spasmodique du Sphincter; in Traité des Maladies Chirurgicales, t.x. 8vo. Paris, 1825. — Béclard, Revue Médicale, &c., t. i. 1825, p. 309. 479. (On the Treatment of Fissure of Anus.) — Dupuytren, in ibid. Mars, 1826; et Journ. des Progrés des Sciences Médicales, &c., t. Xv. p. 225. (Recommends Ext. of Bel- ladonna for Fissure of Anus.) — Detzmann, Dissert. de Fistula in Ano, 4to, Jen, 1612, — I’, Reisinger, Dar- ’ . stellung eines Verfahrens die Mastdarmfistel zu unter. binden. Augs. 8vo. 1816.—T’. Copeland, Observ. on the Principal Dis. of the Rectum and Anus. 8vo. Lond. 1814. — W. White, Observations on the contracted In- testinum Rectum, 8vo. Bath, 1822; and Observations on Strictures of the Rectum, and other Affections which diminish the Capacity of that Intestine, 8vo. Bath, 1820. —Rhicherand, Nosog. et Thérapeutique Chirurgicales. 4 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1821. — R. Allan, A System of Pa- tholog. and Operative Surgery, vol. iii. p. 488. Tdin. 1824,—G, Calvert, Practical Treatise on Hemorrhoids, Piles, Strictures, and other Important Diseases of the Urethra and Rectum. 8vo. Lond. 1824.—P. F. Blandin, art. Rectum, in Dict. de Méd. et Chirurg. Pratiques. — A, Jukes, A Case of Carcinomatous Stricture of the Rectum, in which ‘the descending Colon was opened in the Loin. 8vo. Lond. 1822. — Kothe, in Rust’s Magazine, b. i. pt, ii. p. 259. — Schreger, Ueber die Unterbindung der Mastdarmfisteln, u.s.w. Chirurgische Versuchen, b. ii. pt. 1. Ntirnb. 1818. — Larrey, Mémoires de Chi- rurg. Militaire, t. iii. p. 415.— F. Hrbes, in Revue Médi- cale Histor. et Philos., &c. 1820. livr. i. p. 174. — Mém. sur la Situation de |’ Orifice interne de la Fist. en l’Anus, &c. in Mém. de la Soc. Méd. d’Emulation, t. ix. — C. Bell, A Treatise on the Dis. of the Urethra, Vesica urinaria, Prostate, and Rectum, 3d edit. 8vo. Lond. 1822. — Piedagnel et Velpeau, in Dict. de Médicine, t. ili. p. 328.—J. Syme, On Diseases of the Rectum. 8vo. Edin. 1828. — A. Cooper, Lectures on Surgery, vol. ii. p. 333. — Dupuytren, De la Fissure a l’Anus; in Le- cons orales, t. iii. p. 282. Paris, 1831.—H. Mayo, Obser- vations on Injuries and D:seases of the Rectum. 8vo. Lond. 1833.—W. Hedenus, Ueber die verschiedenen For- men der Verengerung des Afterdarms und deren Behand.- lung. 8vo. Leip. 1828.— A. Collis, on Dis of the Rectum and Anus; in Dublin Hospital Reports, vol. v. p.13l.—R. Liston, Elements of Surgery, 8vo. Lond. 1832, p. 73.— Sanson, Nouveaux Elémens de Pathologie, l. v. p. 152. Paris, 1833. — L. Lisfranc, Mém. sur 1|’Excision de la Partie Inférieure du Rectum, &c. ; in Mém. de l’Acad. Roy. de Méd. 1833, t. iii. p. 291. — A. Costallat, Essai sur un nouveau Mode de _ Dilatation appliqué au Rétrécissement .de Rectum. 8vo. Paris, 1834. — 8, Tanchou, Traité de Rétrécissements de 1’ Uréthre et de VIntestinum Rectum, Svo. Paris. 1835. — Laugier, art. Rectum, in Dict. de Médecine, 2d edit. — A. Lepelletier, Des Hemorrhdides et de la Chute du Rectum. 4to. et 8vo. Paris, 1835. — F. Salmon, Pract. Observat. on Pro- lapsus of the Rectum, 8vo. Lond. 1831; and Pract. Essay on Stricture of the Rectum, &c. 4th ed. 8vo. Lond. 1833. —J. Houston, in Dublin Hospital Reports, vol. v. p. 158. — B. C. Brodie, Lectures on Diseases of the Rectum, in Lond. Medical Gazette, vol. xvi 1835, and vol. xviii. 1836. —G. Bushc, A Treatise on the Malformations, Injuries, and Diseases of the Rec- tum and Anus, 8vo.; illustrated by Plates in 4to. New York, 1837. — A. Vidal, Du Cancer du Rectum et des Oper. qwil peut réclamer. 4to. Paris. 1841. — Vel. peau, Lecons orales de Clinique Chirurgicale, t. iii, — J. M. Chelius, System of Surgery. Translated by J. F. South, 2 vols. vol. ii. 328. p.128. Paris, 1841. — J. W. Fergusson, A System of Practical Surgery, 2d edit. 8vo. Lond. 1846, p. 592. RHEUMATISM. — Synon. — ‘Pevyariomos, a defluxion—from pevuarifw, to be affected by a fluxion, from fetua, a fluxion, and that from pew, I flow ;—Rheumatismus, Pliny, Sydenham, Vogel, Juncker, Sauvages, Cullen, Pinel ; — Dolores Rheumatici, Hoffmann; — Myositis, Sagar; — Myitis, Chrichton ; — Arthrodynia, Cullen ; — Febris Rheumatica, Auctor. Var. ;— Arthritis Rheumaticr, Swediaur ;— A. Rheuma- tismus, Parr. ; — Cauma rheumatismus, Young ; Arthrosia Acuta et Chronica, M. Good; — Gliederfluss, flusskrankheit, Germ. ; —- Rhuma- tisme, Fr. ;— Reumatismo, Ital. ; —Rheumatism, Rheumatic fever, Rheumatic pains. Ciassir, — Class Ist., Febrile diseases ; — Order 2d., Inflammations with fever (Cul- len). — Class 8d., Diseases of the sangui- neous function ; — Order 2d., Inflamma- tions (M. Good) ; —III. Crass ;— IT Orver (Author in Preface). 1. Derinrr. — Severe pains preventing, or re markably aggravated by, motion of the affected parts ; apparently seated in the fibrous structures, chiefly of the large joints, the aponeurotic expan«$