RT Journal
A1 GARDNER JA
T1 CUre of internal hemorrhoids.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD May 20
VO XXXII
IS 20
SP 1091
OP 1092
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450470013001e
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450470013001e
AB Undoubtedly there have been sufficient schemes advanced to cure internal hemorrhoids to rival in number the so-called "cures" of cancer. The trouble is so annoying and painful that the poor sufferer, trying each, turns from one to another and finally throws all aside as useless. The treatment of internal hemorrhoids divides itself into two classes, medical and surgical.As regards the medical treatment, as a rule the patient has taken his druggist's advice and used all the different "cures" he has in stock, and finding no relief here he goes through the list advertised in the newspaper. He then turns to the physician. By this time the pathologic condition is such that the soothing ointment of his doctor does but little good. In the majority of cases, if the patient presented himself during the earlier stages, proper application of ichthyol would reduce the inflammation and effect a cure. Most remedies