Facts and observations relative to a successful mode of treating piles, fistula, hoemorrhoidal excrescences, tumours and strictures, without cutting or confinement, illustrated with numerous cases. Being a familiar exposition of the practice of S. J. Van Butchell ... / [Sidney Job Van Butchell].

  • Van Butchell, S. J. (Sidney Job)
Date:
1839
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Credit: Facts and observations relative to a successful mode of treating piles, fistula, hoemorrhoidal excrescences, tumours and strictures, without cutting or confinement, illustrated with numerous cases. Being a familiar exposition of the practice of S. J. Van Butchell ... / [Sidney Job Van Butchell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. ORIGIN AND GENERAL CHARACTER. The first attack of hoemorrhoids is generally very slight, and is not preceded by any marked consti¬ tutional derangement. There is some sensation of weight or fulness about the sacrum and ex¬ tremity of the rectum, extending, perhaps, to the perineum; and the sensibility of the bladder, urethra, &c., is sympathetically increased. This state continues for a short time, perhaps for two or three days, when, in many cases, a slight flow of blood takes place during the ex¬ pulsion of the foeces, and smears their surface of a bright red colour. This flow never occurs in some individuals, particularly during the pri-