Facts and observations relative to a successful mode of treating piles, fistula, haemorrhoidal excrescences, tumours, and strictures, without cutting or confinement ... / [Sidney Job Van Butchell].

  • Van Butchell, S. J. (Sidney Job)
Date:
1842
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Credit: Facts and observations relative to a successful mode of treating piles, fistula, haemorrhoidal excrescences, tumours, and strictures, without cutting or confinement ... / [Sidney Job Van Butchell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of late, that it would scarcely be possible to find any afflicted individual without a desire for information on, and a capability of com¬ prehending the nature of his complaint, so far as to be of infinite importance in teaching him what should be pursued and what shunned, to promote the comfort of a body diseased, or predisposed to disease, and indicating the surest and easiest paths back again to the high road of health. In compliance with this presumed desire for information, I have been induced to publish the following facts and observations on the dis¬ eases of the lower intestines, with a record of some of the many cases that have fallen to my lot to treat successfully, in a large practice, which, during the last twenty years of my life, has been devoted exclusively to the cure of those complaints. I have endeavoured earnestly to divest my