RT Journal
T1 REports from hospitals.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD June 22
VO XII
IS 25
SP 876
OP 878
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02401020012002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401020012002
AB SURGICAL CLINICS AT THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL BEFORE THE STUDENTS OF THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL COLLEGE. 
    BY PROFESSOR J. B. MURDOCH,SURGEON TO THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL AND PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL SURGERY IN THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL COLLEGE.[Reported by Will. N. Pringle, M.D., a member of the Graduating Class.]February 9, 1889.THE TREATMENT OF HÆMORRHOIDS.I have a patient to show you to-day with that very prevalent disease, namely, hæmorrhoids. Now as you know there are two principal varieties of hæmorrhoids, the internal and the external, and those two varieties have their seats in the two plexuses of hæmorrhoidal veins. The inferior plexus is situated just within the sphincter ani, and empties its blood into the illiac veins, and then through the inferior vena cava to the heart. The superior plexus is situated about one inch above the inferior plexus, and empties its blood, via the portal system,