Disorders of menstruation / by Edward W. Jenks.

  • Jenks, Edward W. (Edward Watrous), 1833-1903.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Disorders of menstruation / by Edward W. Jenks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    fulness in those cases where suppuration has taken place, either from gonorrhceal or septic infection of the tubes, and the frequently recurring local peri- tonitis which results therefrom is continually endan- gering the patient's life. But these cases, although attended by much pain, are not always subject to a severe form of painful menstruation, consequently are without the boundaries of the present subject. The removal of the ovaries and tubes in non-specific or non-suppurative disease is always a dernier ressort, and belongs more especially within the domain of abdom- inal surgery, and, as the author has endeavored to treat the subject of disorders of menstruation rather more from the physician's than the surgeon's stand- point, he merely alludes to it with the conditions where it is indicated and justifiable.