Identifier: diseasesofrectum00gant (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gant, Samuel Goodwin, 1869?-
Subjects: Anus Diseases Rectal Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia : F. A. Davis
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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r, applies in most cases:— Hemorrhoids (piles) are varicose tumors involving theveins and capillaries of the mucosa and subniucosa of the lozverrectum, characterized by a tendency to bleed and protrude (PlateXXII and Fig. 137). The author agrees with Bodenhamer that there is no dis-ease within the whole range of medical literature which has amore ancient history or a more conspicuous sacredness thanhemorrhoids, frequent mention of them having been made inthe Bible, ten centuries before the Grecian era or time ofHippocrates. Moses made the first reference to hemorrhoidsin Deuteronomy, xxviii, 2Y, where the following threat of pun-ishment for disobedience is expressed: The Lord will smitethee with the botch of Egypt and with the emerods. Again,in I Samuel, v, 9, it is recorded that the men of Ashdod, Ekron,and Gath were afflicted: And he smote of the city, both smalland great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. AndPsalm Ixxviii, 66, reads: And he smote his enemies in the(408)
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