The diagnosis, pathology and treatment of diseases of women : including the diagnosis of pregnancy / by Graily Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Graily, 1828-1893.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The diagnosis, pathology and treatment of diseases of women : including the diagnosis of pregnancy / by Graily Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION I. DATA OBTAINED WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. These data will be considered in the following order: Age of the patient; sexual relations ; disorders of menstruation ; unusual discharges of blood from the generative passages: substances ex- pelled from the generative organs ; discharges of non-sanguineous character; disorders of micturition ; symptoms referable to the rectum ; abnormal sensations referable to the generative organs, including pruritus, pain of various kinds experienced during men- struation or at other times, and referable to the internal and ex- ternal generative organs, motions, and pseudo-motions felt by the patient within the abdomen ; and nausea and vomiting. CHAPTER I. THE AGE OE THE PATIENT. Pregnancy; earliest and latest Age at which it occurs—Procreative Age in the Man—Uterine Cancer—Mammary Cancer—Cauliflower Excrescence of the Os Uteri—Fibrous Tumors and Fibrous Polypi of the Uterus—Diseases of the Ovaries. The deductions to be drawn from the simple fact of the age of the patient are not very numerous or very decisive, but the fact may, taken with others, be of extreme importance in a diagnostic point of view. Particular diseases are not always limited to cer- tain ages ; yet the range of age within which a certain disease is in the habit of showing itself is for the most part constant—suf- ficiently so, at least, to enable us to lay down general rules in reference to the diagnosis. The age of the patient is important, looking at the matter from another point of view. The treatment to be pursued must always