A practical treatise on haemorrhoids or piles, strictures, and other important diseases of the rectum and anus : being, with some additions, a treatise to which the Jacksonian Prize was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons / by George Calvert.

  • Calvert, George, 1795-1825.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A practical treatise on haemorrhoids or piles, strictures, and other important diseases of the rectum and anus : being, with some additions, a treatise to which the Jacksonian Prize was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons / by George Calvert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    h P R E F A C E. The investigation of the various import- ant diseases affecting the termination of the alimentary tube, has of late years been prosecuted with very considerable ardour, and the advantage gained in con- sequence has been rapidly progressive. To the writings of Mr. Pott in particular, and to those of some eminent French sur- geons, the profession is largely indebted for principles of treatment in respect to fistulae in ano, &c., to which but little could be added by those who succeeded them; and in respect to the different morbid contractions of the rectum and anus, constituting a much less frequent, but infinitely more distressing and fatal