OBSTIPATION
Reading edition
A PRACTICAL MONOGRAPH ON THE DISORDERS AND DISEASES OF THE RECTAL VALVE
BY
THOMAS CHARLES MARTIN, Ph. D., M.D.
of Cleveland, Ohio
Fellow of the American Proctologic Society, Professor of Proctology in the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, Proctologist to the Cleveland General Hospital, etc.
THE PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL PUBLISHING CO 1899
TO MY GENEROUS COLLEAGUES I GRATEFULLY DEDICATE THIS LITTLE BOOK.
T. C. M.
“I deny their existence, and if they did exist I would deny that their use was to support the fecal mass. For many years I have searched for these folds and I have yet to encounter them. In my opinion, they existed only in the author’s mind’s eye.”—Joseph M. Mathews, M.D., Diseases of the Rectum, p. 37.
CONTENTS
Prefatory.
Introduction.
A Chronologic Review of the Literature of the Rectal Valve.
The Chronology of Atmospheric Inflation of the Rectum for its Inspection.
The Examination of the Rectum.
Topographic Anatomy.
The Rectal Valve.
Defecation.
Obstipation in Infants.
Obstipation in the Adult.
Diagnostic Observations.
Cases of Obstipation Radically Treated.
List of Illustrations.