On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections, in connection with deragement of the assimilating functions / by Edward Rigby.

Date:
1844
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Credit: On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections, in connection with deragement of the assimilating functions / by Edward Rigby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. I feel no slight hesitation in putting the fol- lowing observations before the public ; not only because I am well aware that the investigation of the affections to which they refer is still far from being so perfect as I could wish it to be, but also because these affections on the whole excite less interest among the generality of the profession than any other class of diseases. They are but too commonly looked upon as either being trivial or incurable; and in neither point of view are they likely to receive close in- vestigation or elicit practical inference. Even what little notice they do excite, is chiefly di- rected to their local symptoms and treatment,