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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    they continue in this position, contracting adhe¬ sions which impede their reduction, or acquire such an enormous size, that if returned they act as foreign bodies to the rectum, and are immedi¬ ately protruded; but more frequently they are only seen externally, when the patient is at stool or is desired to make an artificial effort. By the pressure of the sphincters, partly also by the mechanical injury in the passing of indu¬ rated fceces, and a disposition in tumours to vas¬ cular action, inflammation is often produced, at¬ tended, in many instances, with the most violent and excruciating pains, and not unfrequently end¬ ing in abscess and fistula. The extreme violence of the symptoms, however, in such cases, cannot be better illustrated than by mentioning the out¬ lines of a case in which high inflammation of some tumours was succeeded by sloughing:— Mr-? aged 47, after having for some time great inconvenience from the presence of some