Observations on the contracted intestinum rectum, and the mode of treatment: accompanied with cases, illustrative of the different morbid appearances attendant on the complaint. : To which are subjoined, two engravings of the disease. / By W. White, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

  • White, William, 1744-1790.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Observations on the contracted intestinum rectum, and the mode of treatment: accompanied with cases, illustrative of the different morbid appearances attendant on the complaint. : To which are subjoined, two engravings of the disease. / By W. White, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was gradually increased, so that at length the pas¬ sage admitted of the largest size being introduced: after which his stools came away free and easy, and of their natural diameter; nevertheless he still had occasionally returns of pain about the hypo¬ gastric region.^ As the dilatation of the passage appeared to be completely accomplished, he was discharged on the ?4th of November. CASE XI. Ann Lord, a married woman, aged thirty- eight, of the common sanguine melancholic tem¬ perament, was admitted an out-patient at the Bath City Infirmary and Dispensary, in July, 1810. She complained of having pains in her limbs, which were so bad at night as to prevent her from sleeping. She had also large blotches on several parts of her * It appears to inc that the colon may be so much disten¬ ded as to prove a source of complaint, after the obstruction in tlie rectum is overcome.