Observations on some of the principal diseases of the rectum and anus : particularly stricture of the rectum, the hemorrhoidal excrescence, and the fistula in ano / by Thomas Copeland, fellow of the College of Surgeons, and assistant surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary.

  • Copeland, Thomas, 1781-1855.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on some of the principal diseases of the rectum and anus : particularly stricture of the rectum, the hemorrhoidal excrescence, and the fistula in ano / by Thomas Copeland, fellow of the College of Surgeons, and assistant surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. AT is the misfortune of surgery, and conse- quently of society, that those diseases which are the produce of slow morbid alteration of parts, have met with less of the attention of surgeons, and the treatment of them has been less cultivated and improved than their im- portance demands; while the operative part of surgery has, by the industrious efforts of the most eminent of the profession, been carried to a perfection which, in the present state of anatomy and pathology, seems hardly to be increased.