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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    must confess I am neither an ajDostle of Apostoli nor a disciple of Mr. Lawson Tait. If on the one hand these growths can be got rid of Ijy electricity applied to the endometrium, or by the more dangerous method of applying the current directly to the tumour, or on the other by removal of the uterine appendages, by which the blood supply of the ovarian vessels is removed, I would ask, can the end not be accomplished by so restoring the equilibrium of the uterine circula- tion and tonus of its mascular structure that the blood supply will only be sufficient to nourish the normal tissue to the disadvantage of the adventitious growth, so that the latter will assume the character of a foreign body, which it undoubtedly is, and the former by its contractile power, will either be the means of starving it out of existence, or expelling it from its nidus? These may be considered verj- crude ideas, ljut facts are stubborn things, and with these remarks I will proceed to defend the position I have taken uj). Seven years ago I was called to attend a case of endometritis which had completely undermined the health of the patient. She had copious muco-purulent discharge from the uterine canal and at the catameuia the flow was excessive. On examination I could detect a small myoma in the anterior wall just beyond the cervix, but to this I gave very little attention, and proceeded to treat the endometritis, which existed, in my usual way. The result was so far satisfactory that