Fistula, haemorrhoids, painful ulcer, stricture, prolapsus and other diseases of the rectum : their diagnosis and treatment / by William Allingham.

  • Allingham, William, 1829-1908.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Fistula, haemorrhoids, painful ulcer, stricture, prolapsus and other diseases of the rectum : their diagnosis and treatment / by William Allingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hospital for a long while, but finally, at her own request, I sent her home, and I was informed that she did not live very long. A man, set. 42, of delicate and feeble appearance, was an out-patient of mine at St Mark's. He had been ill for about twelve months, and had been in several hospitals. He had ulceration of the rectum, superficial but extensive ; dorsally it extended up the bowel for quite two inches, and laterally, on both sides, for about an inch; the skin externally was slightly in- volved ; there was no constriction of the bowel, and no deposits; the sore had a very dry and red appearance, it discharged a sanious fluid, but no pus. He suffered most horribly, scarcely ever had a moment's ease, and he took all the morphia he could get. He would not come into the hospital to have anything done; all he prayed for was something to relieve his pain. I taught him to use the hypodermic syringe upon himself, and he obtained some ease from that. When he became too weak to come to the hopital I visited him at home wishing much to get a post-mortem, but when he died his friends would not allow it. He died of diarrhoea; there was no evidence of any secondary deposits having taken place. John S—, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, get. 31, was sent to me at St Mark's, January, 1872, from the Hospital at Shoeburyness. The history is that he has been in India for six years, and returned to England twelve months back. While in India he had diarrhoea, fever, and smallpox, but never dysentery, always enjoyed good health, he is a steady man, single, and of very good character in the army. He cannot quite