The principles and practice of obstetricy, in five parts ... with observations on some of the more important diseases of women ... / Edited, with copious notes and illustrations by Thomas Castle.

  • Blundell, Dr., 1790-1878
Date:
1840
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    by a pregnancy complete in all its parts, a thorough change must be made in the condition of the uterus. DIAGNOSIS. It is of the utmost importance that you should well understand the diagnostic characters of this discharge, for it may be, upon your opinion the character of a chaste female may depend. ‘To miscarriage it bears a great resemblance—the grand features are the same; the pains, the eruptions of blood, the escape of membrane, are, altogether, enough, in a country town, to set every tongue in motion; and perhaps the only peremptory and decisive difference between the two affections is, that in miscar- riage there may be an embryo, but in membranaceous menstruation neither the embryo nor its parts are ever seen. This disease, I am fully satisfied, may occur in women of undoubted honour. Nor is it difficult, in part, to explain this. When conception and formation occur, the deciduous tunic of the ovum is not formed by the rudiments, but it is generated by the inner membrane lining the uterus, as extra-uterine pregnancy proves. ‘The action, there- fore, which produces the membrane of which we now treat, is one to which the lining membrane of the uterus is by nature prone ; but in generation this action is excited by the stimulus of the male fluid, and in this membranaceous affection it occurs spontaneously. I presume that the membrane is gradually formed during the intervals between the catamenia. SECTION LI. DYSMENORRHEA, Women are very frequently assailed with a disease, the dysme-