Part 17

11. The ointment applicator at the time of the placing of the ointment in contact with a diseased area

12. The proctoscope ready for introduction

13. Sitting posture of the patient, the first step toward proctoscopy

14. Horizontal posture of the patient for anoscopy

15. Putting the patient into the new posture

16. The new posture

17. The hook for testing the valves

18. The proctoscopic mirror

19. Drawing of specimen No. 281 in the Anatomical Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London

20. Drawing of specimen No. 284 in the Anatomical Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London

21. From a photograph of an external view of the paraffin cast-filled rectum

22. Interior view of the left half of the rectum of an adult

23. Knee-chest posture. Left lateral half-interior view

24. Posterior view of a specimen carefully dissected to show the muscular supply to the valve-bases

25. Posterior half occupied by its cast

26. Anterior half of specimen shown in Fig. 25

27. Posterior view of a cast-filled rectum

28. Paraffin cast from a rectum

29. Photograph of a female cadaver showing, after laparo-symphysiotomy and removal of bladder, uterus and adnexa, the upper rectum and sigmoid packed with scybalums

30. The rectum, the same as is shown in Fig. 29, divided into anterior and posterior halves

31. From a photograph of an anal end-view of a cast-filled rectum

32. From a photograph of an external view of a cast-filled rectum and its mesenteric attachment to the sacrum; taken from an 18-months-old infant

33. A semilunar valve drawn as seen under a glass magnifying five diameters

34. The instrument case

35. The rectum of an infant, stillborn

36. Side view of the specimen shown in Fig. 35

37. Front view of the rectum of an infant aged one hour

38. Side view of the specimen shown in Fig. 37