Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus ; particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano. / By Thomas Copeland.

  • Copeland, Thomas, 1781-1855.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Observations on the principal diseases of the rectum and anus ; particularly stricture of the rectum, the haemorrhoidal excrescence, and fistula in ano. / By Thomas Copeland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    “ decussatim erat constrictum, ut neque sur- “ sum, neque deorsum quicquam transire potuit. Quis vero mali istius potuit esse “ presagus ? Lynceus hie taceat, vis clan- “ destina peremit* *.” But the most perfect history of the dis- ease is to be met with in a paper in the Memoirs of the London Medical Society'! , under the title of the Schirro-Contracted Rectum, by Dr. Sherwin. Indeed the se- veral phenomena of this alfection, in its advanced stages, uninfluenced by the only treatment which will relieve it, are detailed by this author with a precision that renders any farther description almost unnecessary. But Dr. Sherwin also considers it as a disease totally beyond the powers of medicine or surgery to relieve, and that our utmost ef- * Sepulcretum Anatomicmn, vol. ii. page 269. ed. Genev. 1500. *f Vol. ii. page 9.