. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. tery opera-tion hundreds of times and has never lost a patient from hem-orrhage, nor has he seen a case of stricture produced by has, in a few instances, known a profuse hemorrhage tofollow the operation where some bleeding-point was not cau-terized, and he has also seen the same accident follow the liga-ture operation where the knot was improperly tied or the endscut too short. TREATMENT OF INTERNAL HEMORRHOIDS 441 In the authors opinion, when general anesthesia is employed,the clamp-and-cautery oper
. Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine. tery opera-tion hundreds of times and has never lost a patient from hem-orrhage, nor has he seen a case of stricture produced by has, in a few instances, known a profuse hemorrhage tofollow the operation where some bleeding-point was not cau-terized, and he has also seen the same accident follow the liga-ture operation where the knot was improperly tied or the endscut too short. TREATMENT OF INTERNAL HEMORRHOIDS 441 In the authors opinion, when general anesthesia is employed,the clamp-and-cautery operation should take precedence over theligature method because it (a) is equally as radical, (h) can beperformed as easily and quickly, (c) is no more likely to be fol-lowed by hemorrhage or stricture, (d) vesical disturbances areless frequent, (e) after-pain is not so great, and (f) recovery ismore rapid. When a ligature has been applied, it will not ordi-narily slough out before the sixth day, and then it leaves an ulcerwhich requires some time to heal; as a rule, the patient is not.
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