Haemorrhage from the uterus : an address read before the British Gynaecological Society / by Thomas Savage.

  • Savage, Thomas, 1839-1906.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Haemorrhage from the uterus : an address read before the British Gynaecological Society / by Thomas Savage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    relief for this condition of things, but it is occasionally so intractable as to prove a source of much annoyance and vexation. I would lay great stress on the importance of purgatives, principally saline, and none is more bene- ficial than the effervescent magnesium sulphate, recently introduced into the British Pharmacopoeia. In this we are reverting to the teachings of our fathers who paid so much attention to the “ Primse Viae.” Chronic alcoholism is not infrequently a cause of haemorrhage. As in recent years the methods of gynaecology have been more surgical than medical, and it has become the custom to say to one-self, in a given case, rather what we shall do than what we shall administer, so I doubt not but that practitioners whose medical preponderate over their surgical instincts may object that sufficient import- ance has not been given to the expectant, conservative, and medical aspects of treatment. The apology therefor is that while we rejoice that of late medical therapeutics, though more limited in extent, have become much more exact, we rejoice still more at the greatly increased benefits which can be obtained by judicious surgical therapeutics. Other causes of haemorrhages will occur to the mind which have not been referred to on the present occasion. Printed by Robert Birbeck, 313, Broad Street.