The medical, surgical and hygenic treatment of diseases of women : especially those causing sterility, the disorders and accidents of pregnancy and painful and difficult labor / by Edwin M. Hale.

  • Edwin Moses Hale
Date:
1880
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Credit: The medical, surgical and hygenic treatment of diseases of women : especially those causing sterility, the disorders and accidents of pregnancy and painful and difficult labor / by Edwin M. Hale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ON STERILITY, INTRODUCTION. In the treatment of this subject I propose to adopt the gener- ally accepted meaning of the term, namely: the want of the aptitude for being impregnated. This definition does not restrict barrenness to those cases where, from some cause, ovulation does not take place; for that function may be perfectly performed, and yet, from some abnormal condition of the organs of generation, the ovule can- not become impregnated. Impotence in the male cannot be considered as a cause of sterility, and the consideration of this condition does not fall within the province of this treatise. Sterility may be congenital or acquired; or it may exist for years, and a spontaneous cure result from the action of un- known causes. History relates many instances illustrating these conditions. Anne of Austria had been married to Louis XIV for fifteen years before she had a child. Another Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII, was sterile for twenty-two years. Catalina de Medicis, wife of Henry the Second, was unfruitful during the first ten years of her marriage, after which time she became so prolific that she had ten successive children. Many similar cases are reported in the various works on obstetrics. There is still another class of sterile women, who become so after having one or two children, and are afterwards barren, even when no cause is apparent in the condition of the organs of reproduction.
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