. Rectal and anal surgery : with description of the secret methods of the itinerant specialists. Fig. 26.—Intebnal IncompleteFistula. { EKmarcli.]. Fig. 27.—Exteenal InoompleieFistula. [Esfnarch.] usually present in old fistulas. These add much to the difii-culty of diagnosis, and to the severity of operative form to be noted is the horse-shoe fistula, so called, inwhich the sinus surrounds the rectum upon its posterior ABSCESS AND SINUS: IX A\(>. 61 half, ami extends equally upon the two sides, thus under-mining the cellular tissue for about one-half the circumfer-ence

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. Rectal and anal surgery : with description of the secret methods of the itinerant specialists. Fig. 26.—Intebnal IncompleteFistula. { EKmarcli.]. Fig. 27.—Exteenal InoompleieFistula. [Esfnarch.] usually present in old fistulas. These add much to the difii-culty of diagnosis, and to the severity of operative form to be noted is the horse-shoe fistula, so called, inwhich the sinus surrounds the rectum upon its posterior ABSCESS AND SINUS: IX A\(>. 61 half, ami extends equally upon the two sides, thus under-mining the cellular tissue for about one-half the circumfer-ence of the bowel. The symptoms of fistula are not easily pain is present, as a rule, the chief discomfort to thepatient being the slight discharge which is kept up from thesinus as long as it remains unhealed. This is not of itselfsufficient to be exhausting, and does not prevent or interferewith ordinary occupations, so that many patients have hadfistulc¥ for years and l)een conscious of no serious annoyance ofthe discharge issm>h that mostpersons are earn-estly desirous ofgetting rid of thetrouble, and arewi

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