A review of the present state of uterine pathology / by James Henry Bennet.

  • Bennet, James Henry, 1816-1891.
Date:
1856
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Credit: A review of the present state of uterine pathology / by James Henry Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •what is amiss with them, beyond the evident weakness, dys- pepsia, &c. When both the local and general symptoms are combined, there is really no element of error left for those who are ac- quainted with these forms of disease, and there must come the day when such cases will be recognised and properly treated by all educated medical practitioners, as surely as a case of pneu- monia or rheumatism. As I have before stated, inflammation and the lesions which accompany and follow it may occur at any period of female life, from the dawn of menstruation until old age. As the female progresses through the various phases of her existence, the position in which she is physiologically and socially placed, varies with reference to the uterine organs. In the unmarried state, she is spared all the dangers to which marriage renders her sex liable; but she is still exposed to perturbations of the menstrual function and to mental influences which combine to produce, occasionally, even early in life, aggravated forms of uterine inflammation, and of mucous membrane ulcerative disease; as was first pointed out by myself. Many of the worst cases of hysterical convulsions, spinal irritation, dysmenorrhcea, dyspepsia, debility, &c, observed in young unmarried females, may be traced to this cause. In the married, inflammatory affections of the uterus, but more especially of the cervical mucous membrane, are very fre- quent ; and in addition to the symptoms and conditions above enumerated, are amongst the most frequent causes of sterility, miscarriages, false conceptions, and premature confinements; of sickness, uterine pain and haemorrhage during pregnancy; of non-dilatation of the cervix during labour; and of puerperal metritis, hsemorrhage, &c, after labour. Even after the cessation of menstruation, inflammatory and ulcerative disease of the uterine mucous membrane may persist, and be the principal cause of that agonizing backache of which elderly women sometimes complain, and which resists every means of treatment, unless its true cause be discovered aud removed. Inflammatory affections of the uterus, but more especially of