Category: Health & Medicine
In the following pages I have endeavored to give a concise yet thorough account of the two affections Fissure of the Anus and Fistula in Ano, in respect to their etiology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. It has not been my object to write upon rectal fistulæ in general.
IN all cases of fistula in ano, before undertaking operative interference it is essential for the surgeon to examine the patient carefully, not only locally, but also as to the...
4. CHAPTER III.It is highly important to the success of any plan of treatment directed toward the cure of anal fissure, that attention be paid to the condition of the bowels. Regularity of hab...
3. CHAPTER II.SYMPTOMS.—The symptoms in the early stage of this disease are not usually severe, and are generally experienced during defecation, when at some point or other there will be an u...
6. CHAPTER II.SYMPTOMS.—The symptoms of fistula are not easily overlooked. Occasionally there is considerable pain present, but more frequently only a feeling of uneasiness about the anus is...
2. CHAPTER I.FISSURE.—The domain of surgery includes few diseases which produce such intense suffering to the patient as does the affection under consideration, and none in which proper trea...
5. CHAPTER I.FISTULA IN ANO which is not due to ulceration and perforation of the rectal wall from within is the result of a previous abscess. Such an abscess forms in the ischio-rectal foss...
7. CHAPTER III.TREATMENT OF ABSCESS.—Preliminary to a consideration of the treatment for the disease when the fistulous track has been formed, some attention must be devoted to the importance...
1. CHAPTER IV.In the following pages I have endeavored to give a concise yet thorough account of the two affections Fissure of the Anus and Fistula in Ano, in respect to their etiology, sympt...