Medical report of the case of Miss H-- M-- / by T.M. Greenhow.

Date:
1845
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Credit: Medical report of the case of Miss H-- M-- / by T.M. Greenhow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <r * • 18 which but slight relief was obtained. The un- wonted symptoms of indisposition had subsided, when, on June 22nd, the Mesmeric treatment was commenced, of which a full account has been published in the Athenaeum by Miss jNI. From this time she ceased to be properly under my care, though her accustomed remedies were not yet laid aside. I shall therefore pass over the interval till September 4th, on which day I carefully repeated my examination, and found, as on April 2nd, that the posterior connections of the uterus were less fixed than formerly. The retroversion continues, but the fundus, which rests against the rectum and sacrum, feels looser, and admits of being raised to some extent with the finger in vaginam. The uterus feels altogether less firm, and more yielding in its substance, and the os uteri is to a certain extent dilatable, yielding to the finger in a slight degree more than formerly. Within, and slightly projecting from the os uteri, can be felt two substances, which convey to the finger a sensation as if two lumbrici, of moderate size, hung through the mouth of the uterus. These membranous projecting bodies are said, on pres- sure, occasionally to exude a reddish discharge. In addition to the knowledge obtained by this examination, Miss M. supplied me with the fol-