On a new method of treating certain diseases of the cervix uteri / by Robert Ellis.

  • Ellis, Robert.
Date:
1852
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Credit: On a new method of treating certain diseases of the cervix uteri / by Robert Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    instance has it ever been followed by any bad results. On the contrary, intractable disease has rapidly assumed a healthy character, induration and even inflammatory hyper¬ trophy have gradually disappeared, and an amount of pro¬ gressive and rapid amendment has taken place which I have never been able to secure with the most diligent employment of ordinary escharotics. I append a few notes of some cases in which I have suc¬ cessfully used this plan of treatment, some of which are of an interesting nature, and which I trust to have the opportunity of illustrating on another occasion at greater length. S. H., aged 50, an unmarried person. Her most pro¬ minent symptoms were a distressing sinking at the chest, with atonic dyspepsia, pain in the side, and a muco-purulent discharge streaked with blood, attended with bearing down, and irritation of the bladder and rectum. There was in¬ flammatory induration, and an extensively diseased con¬ dition of the cervix. The use of the cautery was followed by some haemorrhage, and much purulent dis¬ charge. She rapidly got better, and the constitutional amendment was as striking a result as any obtained. The duration of this patient’s previous illness and local disease, extended to seven or eight years. S. H., aged 40, a married woman; had borne several children. Attention being directed by the patient herself to the existence of uterine disease, a partially prolapsed and greatly hypertrophied and diseased cervix was revealed on examination. The effects of the cautery in resolving the indurated condition of the diseased part were very dis¬ tinctly marked.