A treatise on the organic diseases of the womb.

  • Balbirnie, John, 1810-1895.
Date:
[1836?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the organic diseases of the womb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    But, from the want of accurate research, from the insufficiency of the means of investigation, and from the slow progress of the sciences generally, it was to be supposed that their history should have long remained obscure and inexact. Indeed, even down to a very recent epoch, the most im- portant points of the pathology of the diseases of the womb have entirely escaped the observation of all the authors who have written on the subject. It is only of comparatively late years, and in France chiefly, if not exclusively, since the re- introduction of the speculum into practice by M. Recamier, that the interesting domain of uterine affections has been fully opened up to us—that their diagnostic characters have been accurately appreciated, and their treatment rendered rational and efficacious, because founded on the only solid basis — rigorous pathological observation. Within a very recent period especially, the more general application of this instrument to the diagnostic treatment of the diseases of the womb has been fraught with results alike gratifying to the physician and to his art. By the immense progress made in this respect, an entire new face has been given to the science : a new era has been created in its history ; a new field of patho- logy altogether has been exposed to our view; lesions have been discovered that were formerly unsuspected ; and efficacious modes of treatment had recourse to, formerly impracticable. These