Practical observations on some of the diseases of the rectum, anus, and contiguous textures : giving their nature, seat, causes, symptoms, consequences, and prevention, especially addressed to the non-medical reader . rSfii. a,Arm£to baD& it byb. of trie llxxsc , . Pad lo prevent Ike xetarti of , . A rectum laid op en. Vy4 a. JaieimL snnzfeice o£ Ike Tectum.\ Ulcere or: flie rectum . ULCERATION OF THE RECTUM. 199 inflammatory blush. When the ulcers are situated in theanal canal, within the limits of the sphincters, they areexqu
Practical observations on some of the diseases of the rectum, anus, and contiguous textures : giving their nature, seat, causes, symptoms, consequences, and prevention, especially addressed to the non-medical reader . rSfii. a,Arm£to baD& it byb. of trie llxxsc , . Pad lo prevent Ike xetarti of , . A rectum laid op en. Vy4 a. JaieimL snnzfeice o£ Ike Tectum.\ Ulcere or: flie rectum . ULCERATION OF THE RECTUM. 199 inflammatory blush. When the ulcers are situated in theanal canal, within the limits of the sphincters, they areexquisitely painful, like fissure of the anus. They sometimesspread rapidly, attacking many points of the rectum, andextend up high. Such cases usually terminate fatally, espe-cially in bad constitutions. By the introduction of the finger, the ulcerated surface mayvery easily be detected, by its roughness ; and when it is lowdown, nothing more will be necessary than to separate thebuttocks, and evert the edges of the anus with the best method, however, is to dilate the anus with a goodspeculum ; then the situation, the extent, the form, and thecharacter of the disease, can at once be easily lower portion of the colon and the rectum are more lia-ble to ulceration, than any other portion of the alimentarycanal, doubtless in part owing to the accumulation
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