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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 . s or abrasions; by surgical operationson the rectum; by the passage of foreign bodies taken intothe stomach ; by the entanglement of faeces in the mucousfollicles, and their consequent enlargement; by the contactof venereal virus; by unusual and rapid distension of therectum ; by chronic inflammation of the mucous is often a consequence of chronic diarrhoea or of chro
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 . s or abrasions; by surgical operationson the rectum; by the passage of foreign bodies taken intothe stomach ; by the entanglement of faeces in the mucousfollicles, and their consequent enlargement; by the contactof venereal virus; by unusual and rapid distension of therectum ; by chronic inflammation of the mucous is often a consequence of chronic diarrhoea or of chronicdysentery ; and in children it is sometimes complicated withthrush ; it is frequently associated with tubercular disease ofthe lungs or the liver. Ulcers of the rectum are sometimes found in irregularpatches of a fungoid appearance, and of a livid, or dark redcolor, slightly elevated above the surrounding parts on themucous membrance (Yide Plate VII. Fig. 1.); again, theyare small, well defined, and with quite elevated edges; andagain, in old cases, they may be found excavated, with jaggedand livid edges, devoid of granulations, covered with anash-colored tenacious matter, and surrounded by a deep PLATE VJI. rSfii. a,Arm£to baD& it byb. of trie llxxsc , . Pad lo prevent Ike xetarti of , . A rectum laid op en
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