The treatment of pelvic inflammations through the vagina.

  • Pryor, William Rice, 1857 or 1858-1904.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The treatment of pelvic inflammations through the vagina. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The spirit predominant throughout this book is that of an aggressive interference. Yet I have generally laid down also a palliative method of treatment for each disease, to be applied where operation cannot be done I have told what I think and do. The views and meth- ods of others can readily be procured from the medical press. And as I write ex cathedra^ quotations and refer- ences are unnecessary. Still, it must not be imagined that all herein contained is claimed as original. The contribution of any one of us must nowadays be small as the science progresses, and I take pleasure in acknow- ledging my indebtedness to Recamier, Pean, Segond, and Pozzi in Europe, and to Gaillard Thomas, Byford, and Henrotin in America. I have had great assistance in the pathological work from Dr. F. M. Jeffries, who has been as interested in the work as I; Mr. C. L. Remele has been most painstaking in photographing the specimens; and to ]\Iiss Fanny Elkins is due all credit for the illustrations of the opera- tions. I can only hope that I may succeed in directing the attention of the general practitioner to a surgical treatment of the infectious pelvic diseases of women ; and if I do so, he will find in these pages some hints which may be of service to him. William Rice Prvor.