Intestinal ills; chronic constipation, indigestion, autogenetic poisons, diarrhea, piles, etc : also auto-infection, auto-intoxication, anemia, emaciation, etc., due to proctitis and colitis / by Alcinous B. Jamison.

  • Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton), 1851-
Date:
1913
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Credit: Intestinal ills; chronic constipation, indigestion, autogenetic poisons, diarrhea, piles, etc : also auto-infection, auto-intoxication, anemia, emaciation, etc., due to proctitis and colitis / by Alcinous B. Jamison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    canal becomes toughened and hardened like cardboard. As a consequence there is a degree of inertia in the muscular ac- tion of the parts affected. The inflamed, thickened and indurated integument near the anus takes on the form of folds, wrinkles or rugae, of more or less prominence ; but as these extend out over the buttocks they become more and more obliterated, leaving no clue to the direction of the channel which leads from the site of inflammation ; which latter, how- ever, may be learned from the itching, or from the burning sensation with some soreness, over portions of their length. During a practice extending over twenty years, I have found only two cases in which one of these channels was the seat of a slight abscess. It is not usual that pus formations occur in these inflammatory channels. At the margin of the opening from the rectum to the anal tube are five or six small crescent-shaped loops, semi- lunar valves, separated by vertical ridges (the anal columns). Naturally in chronic