The principles and practice of gynecology : for students and practitioners / by E.C. Dudley.

Date:
1905
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Credit: The principles and practice of gynecology : for students and practitioners / by E.C. Dudley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. In accordance with the plan of the book as set forth in the prefaces to former editions I have divided the subjects, not in the usual man- ner of grouping in each part all the diverse diseases of some special organ, but so far as practicable have arranged them in pathological and etiological sequence. For example, infections and inflammations are brought together so that vulvovaginitis, metritis, salpingitis, ova- ritis, peritonitis, and cellulitis may be studied in the combined forms which they ordinarily assume. In like manner, tumors are treated in another part, traumatisms in another, and displacements in another. Under this plan the student, it is thought, will have constantly before him the physiological and pathological unity of the reproductive system; on the other hand, if he considered all the diseases of each organ in a part by itself, he would find tumors, traumatisms, displace- ments, and other anomalies thrown in between the infections of that organ and causal or resultant infections in other parts of the pelvis, and thus might lose sight of the significance of morbid processes and the relations of those processes to one another. I have endeavored to make a thoroughgoing revision which should include the recent advances in Gynecology, and in doing so have rewritten, rearranged, and condensed many chapters, and in this way have found space for considerable new matter without enlarging the volume. The sections relating to General Diagnosis, Local Treatment, Major Operations, Drainage, Urethritis, Cystitis, Ovarian Tumors, Embryology, Malformations, and the Treatment of Salpingitis, Ovaritis, and Pelvic Peritonitis, have been subjected to special revision and to a great extent have been rewritten, with practical additions. Not less sweeping than the revision of the text has been that of the illustrations to the exclusion of all borrowed illustrations, and the introduction of more than three hundred new ones all reproduced from drawings specially made for the book ; but what is more important than this, all minor and major manipulation's and operations have been illustrated to show the several procedures as they take place step by step, each operation being set forth in a series of drawings; for example, twelve drawings describe the steps of hysteromyomectomy,