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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    I immediately sent for eighteen leeches, and applied them myself round the rectum ; they bled very freely, and in about an hour and a half the tumours returned. I desired her to keep very quiet, and told her when she felt a desire for a motion to send for me. On the following morning I received a message to go to her immediately; when I arrived she had just had a motion, and I found, by using very little pressure, that the parts re¬ turned. Every day she continued to improve, and on the fifth day I advised her to allow me to apply my dressing, which would have given her permanent relief, but she declined, feeling, as she said, so well, that she had no fear she should be enabled to return the parts as before. When I left, I ordered her to take occasionally six drachms of castor oil. If the tumours here described had been removed with the knife, I question much whe-