Practical observations on the symptoms, discrimination and treatment, of some of the most important diseases of the lower intestines and anus : particularly including those affection produced by stricture, ulceration, and tumour, within the cavity of the rectum, and piles, fistulæ, and excrescences, formed at its external opening : illustrated by numerous cases ... prevention of above diseases / by John Howship.

  • Howship, John, 1781-1841.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Practical observations on the symptoms, discrimination and treatment, of some of the most important diseases of the lower intestines and anus : particularly including those affection produced by stricture, ulceration, and tumour, within the cavity of the rectum, and piles, fistulæ, and excrescences, formed at its external opening : illustrated by numerous cases ... prevention of above diseases / by John Howship. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tial obligations upon society, no less by the ani- mating influence of their example, than by the intrinsic value of their personal contributions. The following observations relate to a very im- portant branch of surgical practice. The prin- cipal reasons for bringing them forward are, on the one hand, my having devoted a considerable portion of time to the study of these complaints, and on the other having had considerable oppor- tunities for seeing them; and perhaps I may also add, rather considerable success either in relieving or removing them. The functions assigned to the alimentary ca- nal are various and interesting. This canal may be represented as a very extended tube, in some parts larger, in others smaller; in a certain por- tion endowed with a power of digesting its con- tents, but through its whole extent capable of contraction. This power of contraction is of so much import- ance as to be in fact indispensable; the continual necessity for it being shown in the changes pro- duced by digestion, which is the process appoint- ed for the selection of the useful, and rejection of the useless parts of the food. In one of the most correct, and at the same time comprehensive, medical works of the pre- sent day, the intestinal, canal is denned to be the convoluted tube that extends from the sto- mach to the anus: receives the injected food, re- fcmis it a certain time: mixes with it the bile and