A treatise on inflammatory disease of the uterus, and its appendages, and on ulceration and enlargement of the neck of the uterus : in which the morbid uterine manifestations and functional derangements are explained and illustrated / by E. Small.

  • Small, E.
Date:
1856
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Credit: A treatise on inflammatory disease of the uterus, and its appendages, and on ulceration and enlargement of the neck of the uterus : in which the morbid uterine manifestations and functional derangements are explained and illustrated / by E. Small. 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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    provided the very best, and ample supporters for the Uterus, while in a healthy state, and if they become exhausted by disease, no artificial means can possibly be made to supply their place. Retroversion and Anteversion of the Uterus, as I have previously explained, are usually the result of inflammatory enlargement of one part of the Uterus, increasing the weight of that part and thereby producing the displacement. (See pages 136, 137.) If such is the cause and nature of these displacements, it is evident that the cure consists in a course of treatment adapted to remove the inflammatory disease, and experience proves that such is the fact. I have now under treatment several cases of in- flammatory enlargement of one side of the Womb, and in every case I find that the in- creased weight of that side has caused the Womb to fall over in that direction. Pain.—I have previously stated, that the various local pains, produced by inflammatory ulceration of the cervix uteri, are generally very much increased at each return of the menstrual period. With many females thus diseased, the pain