Porneiopathology / A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their Treatment

by Robert James Culverwell

1. Inner part of Rectum.

2. Orifice of Rectum.

3. External Piles.

4. Internal Piles.

In the latter, the tumors are, as it were, squeezed out of the rectum, and swell in a very short space of time to an enormous size. They are of a much more vivid blood-red color, and will be found to be covered only by the lining membrane of the lower gut. These are called “Internal Piles.”

1. Inner part of Rectum. 2. Orifice of Rectum. 3. Internal Piles. View larger image

1. Inner part of Rectum.

2. Orifice of Rectum.

3. Internal Piles.