Diseases of women : a treatise on the principles and practice of gynecology : for students and practitioners / by E.C. Dudley.

  • Dudley, E. C. (Emilius Clark), 1850-1928.
Date:
[1899], ©1899
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Credit: Diseases of women : a treatise on 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 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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    placements result from Inflammations, Tumors, and Traumatisms, and are therefore placed after them. In order to give clearness and brevity to the text, and to bring out important distinctions with force, illustrations in an unusual number, and largely from original drawings, have been introduced. Special care has been taken in the preparation of the new and full illustrations in Perineorrhaphy, Lacerations of the Cervix, and Vesico-vaginal Fistula, and of the many colored illustrations in the parts on Tumors and Displacements. In Chapters IV. and XVII. an effort has been made to indicate the value of routine topical applications, such as are commonly and extensively employed in office practice, to restrict the amount of meddlesome and injurious local treatment to which the reproductive organs are often subjected, and to refer those cases which do not require local treatment to the wider field of internal medicine or surgery. Since dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea, menorrhagia, and sterility are only symptoms, and not diseases, and must, therefore, always be con- sidered from the standpoint of the multiform affections which lie back of them, and since these functional disorders are discussed on many pages, wherever they occur as symptoms of disease, it has been deemed proper to depart from the usual plan of collecting them into a separate chapter; accordingly, the reader is referred for the consid- eration of those subjects to the index. The relations of dress to the health and diseases of women are of so much importance that the author has ventured to summarize them in a separate chapter—Chapter IX. Pelvic Massage after the Brandt method is set forth in the closing chapter, as a supplement to the ti-eatment of Displacements. The various manipulations, shown in a series of nineteen illustrations, apart from any therapeutic value which they may have, are specially useful as a means of diagnosis and for the reduction of displace- ments. Quotations, abstracts, adaptations, and illustrations, when taken from other works are credited in foot-notes giving both the authors' names and the books consulted. The writer has not intentionally at