A practical treatise on inflamation of the uterus, its cervix and appendages, and on its connection with uterine disease.

  • Bennet, James Henry, 1816-1891.
Date:
1860
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    tunitics for seeing uterine disease. They have since been considered over and over again, and have stood the test of several years' addi- tional experience. Some of the views which I bring forward will, I believe, be found original,—at least, if I can trust the results of my bibliographical researches. I have also many details of great interest and importance to present, with reference to the various modes of treatment in inflam- mation, ulceration, and induration of the uterine neck adopted by the Paris physicians and surgeons—details which will, I believe, be new to most of my readers. Having carefully watched, during a great length of time, the effects of the treatment followed by the eminent Parisian practitioners, with whom the knowledge of this form of disease recently originated, and that under the most favorable circumstances —as their pupil or assistant—I have been able, I hope, to form a cor- rect estimate of the comparative value of the different agents which they employ. I have thus, I am also inclined to think, learned how to avoid the exclusiveness which most of them show in the choice of their therapeutic agents. In Paris hospital practice, the objections which exist in England to examination by the touch or by the speculum, either are not met with, or are not allowed by those physicians and surgeons who pay special attention to uterine disease ; consequently, little more difficulty is experienced in appreciating, by their means, the symptoms furnished by the uterine organs, than in resorting to any usual means of inves- tigation in diseases of other parts of the economy. This being the case, the opportunities for investigating the state of the internal organs of generation in females presenting uterine symp- toms must necessarily be much greater than in England, where no examination, even of a married person, is attempted by the most expe- rienced practitioners, unless there be very serious reason for such a step, and very frequently not even then. That this laudable sense of propriety is, however, often carried much too far by the members of the medical profession with us, is well known to all who specially study uterine pathology. I might mention numerous illustrations of this fact. One alone, however, will suffice to show how frequently exami- nation is neglected by well-informed practitioners, from false delicacy on their part, and not on that of their patients.