Observations on injuries and diseases of the rectum / Herbert Mayo.

  • Mayo, Herbert, 1796-1852.
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on injuries and diseases of the rectum / Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    mitted into the Middlesex Hospital on the 9th of October. Fifteen months previously he began to experience a sensation of heat and pain at the anus, which would last a few hours and then subside, leaving a feeling of numbness. While the pain lasted, the anus was strongly drawn in- wards. The pain extended to the hips and to the sacrum. These symptoms recurred daily : they were always brought on when the bowels acted. About a month after the commencement of the complaint, something appeared to him to give way in the bowel, and a slight discharge of mucus took place, which continued afterwards. Other symptoms were present, which led to a suspicion that the prostate gland was the seat of the disorder. The patient made water more frequently than common; and after the water had passed, some pain or uneasiness was commonly felt deep in the perineum, and of the same description