A practical essay on stricture of the rectum : showing the connexion of that disease with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / by Frederick Salmon.

Date:
1828
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Credit: A practical essay on stricture of the rectum : showing the connexion of that disease with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / by Frederick Salmon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    spaces are left between the bands; it is in these spaces, which form so many pouclies, that collec- tions of fgeces take place when the habit of body has been long constipated. Towards the inferior part of the gut, however, the fibres form an entire covering, and at the anus are so numerous as to have received the name of internal sphincter. The arteries of the rectum originate in three sources, and are divided into the superior, middle, and inferior hasmorrhoidals. The superior result from the division of the inferior mesenteric; they descend along the posterior surface of the intestine, dividing into numerous branches, which ramify upon the lateral and anterior surface of the bowel, anastomosing with the branches of the opposite side, and with the middle heemorrhoidal. • The middle h£emorrhoidal generally arises from the internal iliac; occasionally, however, it is a branch either of the ischiatic or internal puden- dal ; descending obliquely on the anterior surface of the rectum, it divides into various branches, which anastomose above with the superior, and below with the inferior hEemorrhoidal. The inferior hemorrhoidals arise from the in- ternal pudendal; they ramify in the fat and cellular substance, surrounding the lower portion of the intestine, and, supplying the splnncter, anastomose with the middle hasmorrhoidal.