Intra-uterine medication / by Robert Bell, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., etc. (Physician to the Glasgow Hospital for Diseases Peculiar to Women).

  • Bell, Robert, 1845-1926
Date:
1888
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Credit: Intra-uterine medication / by Robert Bell, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., etc. (Physician to the Glasgow Hospital for Diseases Peculiar to Women). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRA - U T BRINE ME DIVA TJON. of cases we shall not need to persevere for any such lengthened period. For my part I hold there is no class of cases which give so much gratification to a medical man as this form (jf disease, as the success of treatment is so certain and the relief to the patient so pronounced and visible, not only to herself, Imt to her friends. I need not give in detail any more cases of this disease which have come under my notice, though this would be no difficult matter. 1 would, how- ever, like to speak of its prevalence amongst young ladies, giving rise to most acute dysmenorrhcea as well as undermining the physical and nervous health of the individual. At this moment I have under treatment three cases of hystero-ejDilepsy in young ladies, which, I am convinced, will get well when the uterine mischief is removed, and thus repeat an exj^erience wliich I have frequently had in the past. We must not overlook the probability that if a girl who is suffering from endometritis gets married, the disease will without doubt increase in severity and sterility will certainly result. This is a most delicate but important matter for consideration, but, never- theless, it should be dealt with whenever it exists, or most assuredly a miserable married life will be the experience of your patient. In almost every such case there will exist vaginismus to a very consider- able extent, so that it will be necessary, before any