. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. bout half an inch( centimeters) apart. A piece of gauze smeared over with vaselin wasplaced in the rectum to keep the walls separated. The buttocks were thenstrapped tightly together with adhesive plaster to support the anus. Anopiate was given to tie up the bowels and the child sent home. Two days PROLAPSE 405 afterward the straps were removed and a good fecal action followed; thenthe straps were replaced. Three months later I saw her again. She had beenperfectly well ever since the operation. Case XXV
. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. bout half an inch( centimeters) apart. A piece of gauze smeared over with vaselin wasplaced in the rectum to keep the walls separated. The buttocks were thenstrapped tightly together with adhesive plaster to support the anus. Anopiate was given to tie up the bowels and the child sent home. Two days PROLAPSE 405 afterward the straps were removed and a good fecal action followed; thenthe straps were replaced. Three months later I saw her again. She had beenperfectly well ever since the operation. Case XXV. Extensive Prolapse of All the Rectal Coats.—Dr. P. cameto me to have an operation performed for prolapse of the rectum, and gavethe following history: Aged 38; country practitioner; general health goodexcept that he suffered more or less from constipation and headache. Heseldom had an action more than twice a week, and then it was attendedwith violent straining and protrusion of the bowel. Sometimes only themucous membrane was everted; at other times all of the rectal coats came. Fig. 134.—Dwarfed Child Suffering from Extensive Prolapse of the Rectum. down for several inches, and, when not promptly returned, became swollenand very difficult to reduce. —He was anesthetized and the cautery (Fig. 133) applieddeeply into the mucous membrane after Van Burens method. It was thenpressed deep down into the external sphincter in three equally distant placesto insure contraction. The bowels were tied up for a week and the dietrestricted to milk and soft-boiled eggs. On the seventh day, after taking aSeidlitz powder, he had a copious movement; the bed-pan was used and heremained in a recumbent position. The rectum was irrigated, and balsam ofPeru applied to the mucous membrane. Ten days from the time he entered 406 DISEASES OF THE RECTUM AND ANUS the hospital he returned home. He called a few months later and said thatthe rectum had not troubled him in the least since t
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