Diseases of women : their causes, prevention, and radical cure / by Geo. H. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Geo. H. (George Herbert), 1821-1896.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Diseases of women : their causes, prevention, and radical cure / by Geo. H. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Hygiene. The art of preserving health. Hypermmia. More than a natural amount of blood in the capillaries. Hyperesthesia. Excessive sensibility. I Hypersecretion. Excessive secretion. Hypertrophy. Excessive growth or thickening of an organ. Idiopathic. Relating to idiopalhy—a disease arising sponta- neously. Interstitial. Situated between; pertaining to interstices. Introversion. Turned within. Lumbar. Pertaining to the loins. Menorrhagia. Excessive menstruation. Mesenteric. The membrane which retains the intestines and appendages in position. Metrial. Pertaining to the womb. Metamorphosis. Transformation. Metritis. Inflammation of the womb. Nidus. Nest. Os. Mouth. Osmotic. Pertaining to osmose ; the action by which fluids pass through a porous solid. Parenchyma. The texture of glandular organs, as the liver, etc. Pathological. Morbid changes. Pathology. That which explains the nature and cause of disease. Physiology. The science of living beings. Potentially. In possibility; not positively. Prolification. Act of bearing offspring. Proximate. Nearest. Peciprocatory. Interchanging Petroverted. Bent backward. Retroactive. Acting back. Sacral. Pertaining to the sacrum, the large triangular bone at the end ofthe spinal column. Sanguineous. Bloody. Sensory. Connected with sensation. Strumous. Scrofulous. Therapeutics. The treatment of disease. Tissue. The peculiar structure of a part. Topical. Local. Toxic. Poisonous. Uterus. The womb. Vagina. The passage leading to the womb. Viscera. The entrails.