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)
Date:
[1852?]
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is perhaps no class of diseases concerning which the views of the profession have undergone so complete a revolu- tion, within a comparatively short period, as that to which I am now about to draw your attention. Prior to the appearance of the well known work, On the Diseases of Females which are attended by Discharges, from the pen of Sir Charles Clarke, in the year 1814, the medical men of Great Britain appear to have been in almost mid-night darkness respecting the true nature of this most common source of delicacy among females; and sub- sequent to the advance in knowledge attributable to the above work, but little real progress appears to have been made until about 1813, when Professor Simpson startled the profession by his bold advances upon the almost untrodden field of uterine diagnosis.—It may be well to observe en passant that these remarks refer only to Britain, since the advancement in the knowledge of uterine pathology in France has been far more steady and progressive for many years past.—Since the appoint- ment of the present Midwifery Professor of Edinburgh however, a most complete change has occurred in the feelings of the pro- fession towards this field of research. The stimulus given at our Scottish University has excited a deep and lasting interest in the whole subject, and has encouraged, or called into active exercise, so many ardent minds that we now seem likely to suf-