On diseases of women and ovarian inflammation : in relation to morbid menstruation, sterility, pelvic tumours, and affections of the womb / by Edward John Tilt.

  • Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.
Date:
1853
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Credit: On diseases of women and ovarian inflammation : in relation to morbid menstruation, sterility, pelvic tumours, and affections of the womb / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TO THE FIRST EDITION. It is not without some degree of diffidence tliat I venture to add even a small volume to tlie number of those which, overload medical shelves, for I feel that the flattering reception of an ephemeral pro- duction * oiFers no guarantee of similar success for a work addressed to the profession on the treatment of important diseases. Urged, however, by a conviction that books are not only useful to diffuse the knowlege of great discoveries, but also to connect tliose facts which, although steril so long as they are left disjointed, assume importance when connectedly put together,! have here more methodically arranged, and more fully developed, views first expounded in a series of papers on the sub-acute form of ovarian disease, which appeared in the Lancet in 1849. I am further induced to do so, because those contributions were favourably noticed in various organs of the medical press,t and also on account of the gratifying concurrence in. my views which has been spontaneously offered to me by many of my brethren engaged in practice. Perhaps it would not be unbecoming for me to state, that whether as pupil or house-physician to the Paris hospitals, I have, from the beginning of my career, enjoyed the full advantages of the widest field for uterine investigations which can ever be afibrded by a me- dical school; and that whilst practising in Paris and in various other capitals of Europe, I not only had abimdant opportunities of testing the value of my views relative to diseases of menstruation, but also of * The Serpentine as it is, and as it ought to be ; and the Board of Health as IT IS, and AS IT OUGHT TO BE. 1848. t Edinburgh Monthly Journal, 1849; Dr. 'Rsiokmg^s Itetrospect, January and June, 1849; Braithwaite's Retrospect, 3n,nnary a.nlS\m.e, 1849; American Journal of Medical Science, vols. XLIII. and XLIV.; London Journal of Medicine, Ue- cemlx-'r, 1849.