The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . ^ operation. Palliation by simple support is the sole treat-ment. Treatment.—The treatment of prolapsus may be said to be palliativeand curative. The Palliative Treatment consists in the first placein reducing the tumor when protruded. This, in ordinary circumstances,VOL. II.—45. psus Am. 706 DISEASES OF THE LAKGE INTESTINE AND ANUS. the patient does for himself; but, if it become congested, it requires tliehelp of the Surgeon to put it back. This may occasionally be readilydone by laying the pat
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . ^ operation. Palliation by simple support is the sole treat-ment. Treatment.—The treatment of prolapsus may be said to be palliativeand curative. The Palliative Treatment consists in the first placein reducing the tumor when protruded. This, in ordinary circumstances,VOL. II.—45. psus Am. 706 DISEASES OF THE LAKGE INTESTINE AND ANUS. the patient does for himself; but, if it become congested, it requires tliehelp of the Surgeon to put it back. This may occasionally be readilydone by laying the patient on his side, or making him lean over the backof a chair; and then greasing the mass with some oil, seizing it with asoft towel, and graduall} compressing it, working it back. Jt may bekept up by wearing a belt witli a pad and elastic support. Olive-shapedpewter pessaries are occasionally employed, with the view of preventingthe protrusion ; but I have never seen them of any service, the sphincterbeing usually too relaxed to keep them up, and their pressure appearingto excite irritation. The regulation of the bowels is as important in prolapsus as in is usually best done by the administration of those laxatives thathave been recommended for the latter disease. It is a good plan in pro-lapsus to get the patient to have his daily motion at l)e(l-time instead
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