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.

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    » pathology; but it may be otherwise ex- plained, on principles consistent with the known laws of the animal economy. When once a disordered action has com- menced in a part, especially where it is favoured by peculiarity of structure, the predisposition, in the part itself, to a recur- rence of the same affection at a future pe- riod is increased, and, the same causes still operating, the affection at length becomes habitual, and necessary to the maintenance of the general health. Hence it is, that the haemorrhoidal flux has always been consi- dered a wholesome evacuation, and in fact is so, under some circumstances, and to a certain extent; but, like every other opi- nion, that has become general, and has some foundation in truth, it has been much abused, and cannot, in many instances, be sufficiently deprecated. In almost all cases, therefore, where haemorrhoidal diseases have been produced by constitutional causes, especially where they have existed for a considerable length of time, their influence is not unfrequently beneficial, and to check them suddenly, or even sometimes with more caution, might