Hemorrhoids and prolapsus of the rectum : their treatment by the application of nitric acid / by Henry Smith.

  • Smith, Henry, 1823-1894.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Hemorrhoids and prolapsus of the rectum : their treatment by the application of nitric acid / by Henry Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of Dublin, in a paper published by hira upwards of fifteen years ago in a first-class journal, and its employ- ment lias been most ably advocated by Mr. Henry Lee on various occasions, some practitioners botb bere and elsewhere have not even heard of it. I have been appealed to and written to as the supposed introducer of this plan of treatment. It is this fact which in a great measure has induced me to publish these obser- vations in a separate form, in order that my professional brethren may obtain some additional information regarding a means of treating the diseases of the rectum alluded to, which has been so serviceable in my own hands. This must be my apology for adding to the literature of a subject about which some may think more than enough has already been written. It is not my intention to enter into the anatomy of the parts concerned, nor minutely into the pathology of the diseases referred to, although of necessity this latter subject must, as I go on, receive some notice. It is my purpose to point out and describe those parti- cular cases which can be efiectually remedied or relieved by the local application of nitric acid. It has been usual in description to divide hemorrhoids into those which are external and those which are internal—a very proper definitive distinction—^becaui^ the patho- logy of the two affections is entirely different. The ordinary external pile being simply a coagulation of blood in one of the dilated veins of the rectum enclosed