Uterine diseases, with an appendix : containing an abstract of 180 cases of uterine diseases and their treatment, together with analytical tables of results, ages, symptoms, etc. : to which is added a clinical record of interesting cases, treated in the Manchester Homoeopathic Hospital / by Henry R. Madden.

  • Madden, Henry R. (Henry Ridewood)
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[1852?]
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    or by an injection, or, perhaps, by a sanguineous fluxion, which may exist at one and the same time, in the vulva, the vagina, the internal surface of the uterus, and the ovarian tubes, whence arises a white coloured discharge.' We verily believe that, for once that it is owing to any increased vascular action—be the name that we give to such a state what it may—it is in nineteen, or ninety-nine cases, at least, dependent upon weakness and atony of the vessels of the mucous membrane affected. And a little further on, the reviewer winds up his remarks by observing— But it is unnecessary to address arguments to the English phy- sician on this subject, as very few are likely to be misled by the fan- tastic notions of many continental writers. Such, then, is the opinion of an influential review, in 1843, concerning the inflammatory nature of leucorrhoea. But what says the same Review, or, rather, its successor, the British and Foreign Medico-CJiirurgical Review, in 1850 ? In speak- ing of Dr. Bennet's work on Inflammation of the Uterus and its Appendages, we find at page 115, the following remarks:— Among the disorders of the female constitution, there is none so frequent, none so much misunderstood as leucorrhoea. Its name implies nothing more than an effect of some pre-existing disease. The cause of that effect should be enquired into and understood before we undertake its removal; yet the treatment formerly adopt- ed, almost exclusively consisted in remedies to check the discharge • every variety of astringent was used for this sole purpose • and whether administered by the mouth, and taken into the circulation or applied locally, the whole object was to arrest the fluoralbus and nothing more. After referring to the one step in advance, made by Sir Chas. Clarke, the reviewer proceeds—■ Such was the state of our ignorance on this class of diseases until within the last few years;—an ignorance which was not the result of a careless attention to them, or of want of acuteness on the