The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . d state of the rectum, whichfavors the hsemorrhoidal tendency. The acid may con-veniently be applied through a speculum ani, having anaperture on one side (Fig. 705). Tiiis should be intro-duced well oiled, untd the pile projects through theopening in it, wlien it must be freely rubbed with apiece of stick, or a glass rod, or brush, dipped in the acid ; the surfaceis then immediately wiped with a piece of lint saturated with preparedchalk and water, and tlie instrument removed. Or the gilt clip (
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . d state of the rectum, whichfavors the hsemorrhoidal tendency. The acid may con-veniently be applied through a speculum ani, having anaperture on one side (Fig. 705). Tiiis should be intro-duced well oiled, untd the pile projects through theopening in it, wlien it must be freely rubbed with apiece of stick, or a glass rod, or brush, dipped in the acid ; the surfaceis then immediately wiped with a piece of lint saturated with preparedchalk and water, and tlie instrument removed. Or the gilt clip () may be used, so as to effectually iirotect the neighboring partsfrom the action of the acid. A thin slough separates, leaving a raw-surface, which gradually cicatrises and contracts. The application ofthe acid occasions but little pain when fairly made within the rectum ;but if a drop of it accidentally come into contact with the muco-cutane-ous surface, a vast deal of irritation and inflammation is excited. Thisplan of treatment, though useful in particular forms of pile, as when the.
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