Pain in the Rectum and Anus

Pain in the Rectum and Anus.

[Congenital anomalies of the anus and rectum].

There is confusion in the minds ofmany clinicians about the exact anatomical features of the individual lesions of anorectal anomalies and therefore about the way in which they should be treated. This arises partly because some, like the covered anus, are visible in the perineum, whereas in others part of the anomaly is visible, for example, in a low vaginal fistula, but the more important part...

Diseases of the Rectum and Anus

F.R.C.S., and F. Swinford Edwards, F.R.C.S. Second edition. Pp. xix., 324. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1892. The surgery of the rectum has undergone considerable development during late years, and books that were written some years ago have to undergo much alteration to bring them UP to date. The present edition has been carefully revised by the authors, and includes the most approved modern met...

Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon

WHEN the importance of the thymus to immunological development was discovered in the early 1960's it was appreciated that certain thymic functions may be mediated by humoral factors or hormones. A number of different peptides have been extracted from thymic tissue and there is a large, often controversial, literature dealing with their effects and possible role in T-lymphocyte development. Mode...

Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon

THE Lilly Lecture of 1979 at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh was delivered by Professor R. H. Girdwood, a distinguished fellow of the College and Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology in the University. The lecture commences with a consideration of the portable medicine chest belonging to Prince Charles Edward (The Young Pretender) and possibly brought by him to Scotl...