On Diseases of menstruation and ovarian inflammation : in connexion with sterility, pelvic tumours, and affections of the womb / by Edward John Tilt.

  • Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.
Date:
1851
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Credit: On Diseases of menstruation and ovarian inflammation : in connexion with sterility, pelvic tumours, and affections of the womb / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    Hysterical type—Strange connection between nervous phenomena of variable intensity with the fulfilment of each act of the great drama of reproduction—Hys- teria peculiar to the reproductive period of the life of both sexes—A disease almost peculiar to woman— Concurrence of modem with ancient experience in proof of hysteria being produced by some deranged ovarian action 127 CHAPTER IV. TERMINATIONS OF SUB-ACUTE OVARITIS. Sterility—Most frequently caused by inflammatory action in the different tissues of the ovaries—Dr. Old- ham's case—Sub-acute ovaritis causes sterility, (1) by accelerating the shedding of imperfectly develop- ed ova ; (2) by the retention of blighted ova in the ovary; (3) by placing mechanical impediments to their transmission from the ovaries to the uterus 137 Uterine inflammation—Sub-acute ovaritis frequently pro- duces uterine engorgement and erectile swelling of the cervix—Concord of opinions of modern ob- servers in support of these views—Cases in illustra- tion 146 New light thrown on uterine pathology by this explana- tion of the persistence of the patient's sufferings after the cure of uterine inflammation 154 CHAPTER V. TREATMENT OF SUB-ACUTE OVARITIS. Blood-letting — Purgatives — Injections—Blisters—Innunc- tions—Habituation to use of drawers 161 Treatment of Amenorrhceal type 174 Dysmenorrhceal type 178 Menorrhagic type . . , 175 Hysteric type 170