The diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of diseases of womem : including the diagnosis of pregnancy / by Graily Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Graily, 1828-1893.
Date:
1872
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    CONTENTS. Situations: 1. The Back. 2. Tho Groins. 3. Tho Hypogastric Region, a. lu- tormittont. b. Constant, o. Inflammatory in Character, d. Acute, Intense Sudden Pain. e. Hysterical. /. Boaring-down, 4, Pains in tlie Lower Extremi- ties—Tho various Causes of tlio Pains in these several Situations considered from a Diagnostic Point of View. Treatment.—Palliative Measures—Curative Treatment; Mechanical Treatment— 1. Eoctification of Shape of Uterus. 2. Dilatation. 3. Incision of Canal—These Methods Compared—Their Applicability to tho various Cases pointed out- Methods of effecting Dilatation—Operation of Incision—Use of Stem Pessary— Treatment of Imperforate Os Uteri — Treatment of Membranous Dysraenor- rhcea 359 CHAPTER XVII. NERVOUS DISOEDEES EEFEEABLE TO THE UTERUS. A. Increase of Direct Sensibility of the Uterus.—1. Due to Inflammation. 2. Tho ' Irritable' Uterus ; shown to be Flexion of the Organ.—Treatment. B. Increase of Reflex Susceptibility. 1. Hysteria.—General Nature—New Theory and Explanation of Hysteria traceable to Irritation proceeding from the Uterus.—Treatment. 2. Epileptiform Attacks in Connection with Uterine or Ovarian Irritation.— — Cases Illustrative of this Connection. 3. Nausea and Vomiting.—Connection between these Symptoms and Uterine Disease—Explanation of the Connection in the Non-Gravid State between Flexions of tho Uterus and Nausea and Vomiting—Extension of this Mechanical Theory to the Explanation of obstinate Cases of Nausea and Vomiting in the Gravid State—Compression of the Nervous Tissues of the Uterus the proximate Cause— Other Conditions capable of Exciting the Symptoms.—Treatment . . 400 CHAPTER XVIII. DEFECTIYE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UTERUS.—CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS. Diagnosis. List of Cases.—Absence or Rudimentary Formations of the Uterus—Infantile Uterus—Uterus Unicornis—Double Uterus—Absence of Os Uteri . . 428 CHAPTER XIX. ATROPHY, AND HYPERTROPHY OF THE UTERUS. Atrophy of the Uterus; Tlio Result of Sexual Involution—Premature Senile Atrophy or ' Super-involution' of the Uterus—Mechanical Atrophy. Hypertrophy of the Uterus—Result often of Defective Involution after Deli very— Hypertrophy, with Elongation of the Cervix. Treatment of Hypertrophy of the Uterus