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

Date:
1844
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    long-continued dyspeptic and other gastro-enteric de- rangements. Where the symptoms assume the acute character, they are not unfrequently ushered in by an attack of rheumatic fever or rheumatic gout; or the general diathesis has been directed towards the uterine system by exposure to cold during a menstrual period or by an early abortion. In these cases the attack is in fact one of dysmenorrhoea in a gouty or rheumatic habit. I am at present unable to state with certainty the precise circumstances on which depend the formation and discharge of the fibrinous exsudations which every now and then attend these cases of dysmenorrhoea. Neither the severity of the attack, nor the peculiar type of the accompanying symptoms, nor the habit of the individual herself, seem to stand in any relation or connexion with the appearance of these discharges of fibrinous matter. If there be any fact which seems to be common to all the cases of dysmenorrhoea which have been attended with exsudation, it is the coexist- ence of some local inflammatory action of a neighbour- ing organ. In some it has been the kidney, in others (and on the whole more frequently) the ovary, which may easily be presumed from its close connexion with the uterus, and from the generally-received opinion of its being essential to the function of menstruation. In