The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the rectum : being a practical treatise on fistula, piles, fissure and painful ulcer, procidentia, polypus, stricture, cancer, etc. / by William Allingham and Herbert W. Allingham.

  • Allingham, William, 1829-1908.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the rectum : being a practical treatise on fistula, piles, fissure and painful ulcer, procidentia, polypus, stricture, cancer, etc. / by William Allingham and Herbert W. Allingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In earlier editions of this work there was a table showing the relative proportions found in some thousands of cases seen at St. Mark's Hospital. But the great discrepancies between private and hospital practice induce us to withdraw the Table, as it was very misleading. For there are several diseases to which hospital patients pay little or no attention, but which in well-to-do people are a source of great trouble. Thus, one can see how a table made up only from hospital reports totally differs from one compiled from private practice. Again, it is not uncommon to find several rectal diseases in one patient, for instance, piles and fissure, or piles and fistula, etc. This shows the difficulty in arriving at any statistics of value in setting forth the relative frequency of rectal diseases.