Surgery; its theory and practice . in the ischio-rectal fossa, and should be dis-tinguished on the one hand from the small abscesses which mayoccur round the margin of the anus in the cutaneous folds {peri-anal) , and on the other hand from the abscesses which may formbetween the mucous and muscular coats of the rectum or roundthe gut in the pelvic cellular tissue. The came of ischio-rectalabscess is inflammation round the rectum {periproctitis). Theinflammation may be due to perforation of the mucous membraneby a fish-bone or other foreign body, followed by ulceration andthe escape of faeces


Surgery; its theory and practice . in the ischio-rectal fossa, and should be dis-tinguished on the one hand from the small abscesses which mayoccur round the margin of the anus in the cutaneous folds {peri-anal) , and on the other hand from the abscesses which may formbetween the mucous and muscular coats of the rectum or roundthe gut in the pelvic cellular tissue. The came of ischio-rectalabscess is inflammation round the rectum {periproctitis). Theinflammation may be due to perforation of the mucous membraneby a fish-bone or other foreign body, followed by ulceration andthe escape of faeces into the ischio-rectal fossa; or it may be dueto injury from without, as a kick or blow. In tubercular subjectsabscess is common from very slight causes, and is probably thenthe result of the breaking downof a local deposit of symptoms vary according as the abscess is acute or acute begins with pain, which soon becomes throbbing, andis followed by swelling and redness on one side of the anus, and Fig.


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