The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 706.—Gilt Clip. 705.—SpeculumAni. 704 DISEASES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE AND ANUS. tumor is granulai* or flat, so as not to allow ready removal by the liga-ture, should not be practised when the ligature can be employed, as itis b}^ no means so certain a mode of treatment. It cannot be consideredaltogether devoid of rislv; for 1 have known one instance in which fataler3sipelas followed the cauterisation of piles with nitric acid. Dai^gers attending Operation for Piles.—The operation for the rem
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 706.—Gilt Clip. 705.—SpeculumAni. 704 DISEASES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE AND ANUS. tumor is granulai* or flat, so as not to allow ready removal by the liga-ture, should not be practised when the ligature can be employed, as itis b}^ no means so certain a mode of treatment. It cannot be consideredaltogether devoid of rislv; for 1 have known one instance in which fataler3sipelas followed the cauterisation of piles with nitric acid. Dai^gers attending Operation for Piles.—The operation for the removalof piles may be attended by three sources of danger. After excision,and even the application of the ligature or of nitric acid, er3sipelas maydevelop. If the objectionable practice of transfixing the pile by theneedle be followed, and it be tried in two separate parts, a hsemorrhoidalvein may thus be opened, and its sides held apart by the action of theligatures, and thus a tendency to direct pyseniic infection be induced ;and lastly, I have seen a kind of erysipelatous colitis induc
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