Hemorrhoids in History

The  Greeks
Hippocrates wrote some of the earliest medical descriptions of hemorrhoids. The Hippocratic Treatises, written in 460 BC, described hemorrhoids as being caused by “bile or phlegm be determined to the veins of the rectum, it heats the blood in the veins; and being gorged the inside of the gut swells outwardly, and the heads of the veins are raised up, and being at the same time bruised by the faeces passing out, and injured by the blood collected in them, they squirt out blood, most frequently along with the faeces.”