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 . %./. a. Jjibernal PilesProtruded. A. External PilesB. Pis sure of Hie Anus HEMORRHOIDS—PILES. 59 this as it may, it is doubtless a very ancient disease, and onethat has caused much annoyance, and still continues to inter-fere greatly with the comfort, the convenience, and the hap-piness of thousands. The number of persons laboring underthis vexatious disease, in our own co
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 . %./. a. Jjibernal PilesProtruded. A. External PilesB. Pis sure of Hie Anus HEMORRHOIDS—PILES. 59 this as it may, it is doubtless a very ancient disease, and onethat has caused much annoyance, and still continues to inter-fere greatly with the comfort, the convenience, and the hap-piness of thousands. The number of persons laboring underthis vexatious disease, in our own country, is immense. Theratio in the west and south, is about one in every ten. Description of Piles. From the causes which will be named hereafter, the vesselsof the anus and rectum become preternaturally distendedwith either blood or serum, which, in course of time givesrise to haemorrhage, to the formation of tumors, or spontane-ously subsides, being generally attended with an inflamma-tion and a mucous discharge. This congestion of the vesselsis evidently the primary and substantive disease. Thetumors, which are one of its consequences, have been dividedinto internal and external; the former being situated within,and the latter without the
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