Observations on diseases of the uterus : in which are included, remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus ; as also on schirrous and cancerous affections of that organ, with the characteristic and distinguishing marks of those diseases which resemble, and are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / by G. Rees, M.D.

  • Rees, G., M.D.
Date:
[1805?]
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Credit: Observations on diseases of the uterus : in which are included, remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus ; as also on schirrous and cancerous affections of that organ, with the characteristic and distinguishing marks of those diseases which resemble, and are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / by G. Rees, M.D. 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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    the firmnefs of this membrane, the opinion has principally originated, that impregnation can take place without the introduction of the femen mafculinum into the uterus. As the other parts which are generally included in the female organs of generation are not at prefent interesting in this treatife, I mail omit the consideration of their Structure; and proceed therefore to enquire into thofe affections to which the uterus is more frequently liable, as from this circumflance arife the principal part of female complaints; an alteration in its ftruc- ture or Situation, or an interruption to the regu- larity of its functions, give rife to a multitude of fymptoms, which it is our bufinefs to un- derstand and relieve. Authors who have written on this fubject have not, in my opinion, been fufficiently attentive to the peculiar circumftances apper- taining to the Structure and economy of the uterus, which would not only explain the theory of difeafes, but point out more forcibly the cautions by which we might obviate their frequency. Let us therefore conSider the womb. As