An inaugural dissertation on fistula in ano : submitted to the public examination of the Faculty of Physic under the autority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, The Right Rev. Benjamin Moore ..., for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 12th day of November, 1805 / by Benjamin Kissam, of New-York.

  • Kissam, Benjamin, 1782-1831.
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1805
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on fistula in ano : submitted to the public examination of the Faculty of Physic under the autority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, The Right Rev. Benjamin Moore ..., for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 12th day of November, 1805 / by Benjamin Kissam, of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    most part easily cured; but when they are the consequences of an abscess, it is far otherwise: they are then attended with all the symptoms of inflammation, such as chills followed by a full and hard pulse, thirst, rest- lessness, and a fixed pain in the part affected. Why inflammation here ends in an abscess oftener than in other parts may be explained from the circumstance that the circulation is more languid; and it is but reasonable to sup* pose that absorption is so likewise: hence, from the inactivity of the absorbents such extrava- sations more particularly terminate in suppu- ration. Why abscesses here produce fistu- lous ulcers must be obvious to every one who considers the structure of the part. It has been advised, and strongly recom- mended by some, that fistulas should be suf- fered to break spontaneously, as it was sup- posed that by this means the circumscribed hardness which attends them would be re- moved; and, indeed, this effect is generally produced in a greater or less degree. But it should be remembered, that while this cal» B