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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    part of the obstetric physician, but which was inevitable so long as the mode of ascertaining their character was not adequate for the purpose. Further on, in the same article, we meet with the following sentence (p. 132)— Practitioners have considered these symptoms as purely func- tional ; and although often embarrassed to explain their anomalous character, or to decide exactly upon the function that was disorder- ed, a local phlegmasia was the very last cause that would have been looked for to unravel our entangled ideas. Nevertheless, it appears obvious from the whole tenor of the article, that the doctrine of the inflammatory origin of leucorrhoea commends itself to the judgment of the reviewer; and in the July number of the same periodical, in treating of Dr. Tilt's work on the Diseases of Menstruation, we find, apparently the same writer, remarking that the term leucorrhoea Must for the future have a precise meaning, and be regarded almost entirely as symptomatic of well-recognised organic disease.—(p. 212.) Thus, it appears, that the fantastic notions which- are not likely to mislead the English physician in 1843, become acknowledged truths in 1850. How passing strange, that a learned profession like that of medicine, should be acting and re-acting the same farce of ridicule and concession, of dispa- ragement and adoption, of incredulity and faith, respecting almost every new fact which may be presented to its notice! Let us examine, however, the ground upon which this opin- ion, respecting the inflammatory origin of leucorrhoea, rests. This we find to be two-fold, viz., experimental and deductive. Experimentally, it has been proved by examination of the uterus. Deductively, the results of such examinations have been brought to bear upon certain cases, evincing similar symptoms,but where no opportunity for examination was afford- ed, or where there appeared no paramount necessity for the performance of an operation which must ever be far from