Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus : particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano / by Thomas Copeland.

  • Copeland, Thomas, 1781-1855.
Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus : particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano / by Thomas Copeland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CASE OF INDURATED FAECES AND BILIARY CAL- CULUS OBSTRUCTING THE RECTUM. An elderly lady had for many years complained of great pain in the anus whenever she evacuated the faeces. She was constantly obliged to take purgative medicines; and, even with this assist- ance, she had considerable difficulty in emptying; the intestine. She had now been confined to her bed for several weeks, with pain about the lectum, so violent, that she compared it to that of labour. She was not relieved by the use of purgative medicines, nor by opiates; and glysters could not be thrown up, in consequence of some obstruction in the intestine. On examining the rectum with