. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. stula; B, Blind Internal Fistula. one made a voluntary and open confession of this once secretdisorder. Astruc further says that in the reign of TiberiusCaesar the disease first showed itself. No man in Rome evercomplained of it until the emperor had been severely attackedby it. It is stated that Louis XIV paid Monsieur Felix andhis various assistants for the operation the enormous sum equalto seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars. Any person, irrespective of nationality, age, sex, climate,or occupati
. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. stula; B, Blind Internal Fistula. one made a voluntary and open confession of this once secretdisorder. Astruc further says that in the reign of TiberiusCaesar the disease first showed itself. No man in Rome evercomplained of it until the emperor had been severely attackedby it. It is stated that Louis XIV paid Monsieur Felix andhis various assistants for the operation the enormous sum equalto seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars. Any person, irrespective of nationality, age, sex, climate,or occupation, may suffer from ano-rectal fistula. This com-plaint is encountered usually in middle life and more frequently ANO-RECTAL FISTULA 235 in men than women. It is seldom met with in childhood. Thewriter treated a girl, 8 years old, in whom the disease wasdue to threadworms. A second case coming under his ob-servation was that of a girl, little more than a year old, wherethe cause was a pin which had been swallowed and lodged inthe rectum. Fistula in ano is a very common affection; in. Fig. 60.—Types of CompleteFistula. Fig. 61.—Unusual Types of CompleteFistula. fact, it occurs with greater frequency than any other diseaseencountered about the anal region. It is not uncommon inthe well-to-do, but is met with more frequently in people livingin crowded communities. Out of 16,060 cases of rectal diseasestreated in St. Marks Hospital, London, from 1872 to 1891, \ J
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