Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees].

  • Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1809?]
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Credit: Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    'Whoever is intereffed in the inveftigafion of thofe complaints which form the fubjeCt of the following fheets, will readily acknowledge the inefficiency of our prefent information. Perhaps it will not be prefumptuous to inli- nuate, that no cafes more frequently baffle the efforts of practitioners, than uterine difeafes. This imperfection originates partly in that pernicious modefty by which fome women facrifice their health to- their prejudices, and partly from the obfcurity which has hitherto enveloped the fubjeCt. The author, however, is inclined to hope it may be in his power to leffen the,confequences which enfue from each of thefe fources, as he trufts what he has de- livered will be fufficientJy intelligible and con- clufive to point out the neceffity of an early attention to thefe diforders, and to perfuade the practitioner to afford manual affiftance when