A treatise on the organic diseases of the womb.

  • Balbirnie, John, 1810-1895.
Date:
[1836?]
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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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    diseases have been in consequence all better analysed ; their causes — their characters — their symptoms — their progress and termination — the indications to be fulfilled in their treatment — the action of medicines on the economy — and their effects relatively to these organic lesions—have all been better studied, and better appreciated. It will be permitted us here, for an instant, to anticipate the body of the work, and to take a very brief and cursory review of the results of the speculum applied to the diagnostic and treatment of some of the most ordinary affections of the female generative functions. 1st. Let us examine what have been the results of the speculum with regard to the diagnostic and treatment of venereal diseases in the female. Here an immense step has been made in science, and an immense benefit conferred upon society. The zealous researches of M. Ricord have done every thing on this point. The true seat, and nature, and causes of obstinate gonorrheas, for example, were never exactly ascertained till the speculum first brought them to light; and the treatment was the opprobrium of medicine. Indeed, there was no positive treatment. Copaiba, which has so salutary an effect on the urethritis of man, and also on that of woman, exerts no influence when the disease is confined to the neck of the uterus and the vagina. Here the simple cauterisation of the mucous fol- licles of the cavity of the neck which, in the