A practical treatise on organic dieseases of the uterus : being the prize essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal for 1843 / by John C.W. Lever.

  • Lever, John C. W., 1811-1858.
Date:
1845
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Credit: A practical treatise on organic dieseases of the uterus : being the prize essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal for 1843 / by John C.W. Lever. 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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    domen and vulva; her pills to be continued. On the next morning there was no improvement; the bladder had not been evacuated, although the bowels had acted copiously. Twelve more leeches were applied; and the pills, with the addition of one grain of calomel, were ordered to be repeated. About twelve ounces of dark urine were abstracted, by the catheter. From this time she gradually sunk ; there being great pain and exquisite tender- ness to the last, and diarrhoea setting in, she soon expired. The post mortem condition of the uterus has been already described. (Videip. 22.) Case III. I was called to Jane P——, setat. 21, a dressmaker; she complained of severe pain at the lower part of the abdomen. She had been to Green- wich Fair, and after heating herself by dancing walked home to London. The night was cold and wet; she was lightly clad, and was menstruating at the time. On the following morning she had a rigour, which lasted for half an hour; this was fol- lowed by great heat of skin, delirium, and pain in the lower part of the belly, which continued up to the time I was called. The pulse was 120 sharp ; the catamenia had disappeared; she complained of pain in micturition, and at times she was delirious. She was bled to approaching deliquium; leeches followed by cataplasms were applied to the belly; calomel, antimony, and opium were given every four hours ; but all were of no avail, as she became