On uterine and ovarian inflammation : and on the physiology and diseases of menstruation / by Edward John Tilt.

  • Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.
Date:
1862
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Credit: On uterine and ovarian inflammation : and on the physiology and diseases of menstruation / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from my own case-book only those select cases vvhich bear forcibly on the subject, borrowing from authors and contem- porary observers, facts, rendered much more valuable by their not having been collected under the influence of the views which they will be found so admirably to exemplify. If I have derived my cases more from foreign than from British practitioners, it is simply because Continental obstetricians, having been the first to investigate scrupulously the diseased organs of generation by the combined assistance of the touch and of the eye, have been able, in many instances, to detect the hidden causes of those diseases which, until late years, were only guessed at, and could only be treated symptomatically. As a fitting introduction to this work, I intended to prefix an essay on the natural history of women; but finding the matter to grow rapidly under my hands, and the vast im- portance of the undertaking becoming every day more per- ceptible, I have, for a time, desisted from the accomplishment of what must be considered the only rational introduction to any treatise on the diseases of women. In noticing the many deficiencies of this work, the reader will also remember that it is the first systematic attempt to do, for the principal organs of generation in women, what has now been done for every other important organ of the body; and that, considering the rapid progress which has lately been made in ovarian physiology, it cannot be wrong if some one should seek to give to the pathology of the ovaries a development which would be greater and more satisfactory if the labourer were better able to accomplish his self-imposed task. I cannot record the progress of ovarian physiology without testifying my admiration for the illustrious Kegnerus de Graaf, who, nearly two centuries since, originated a move- ment which has only been followed up within the last few years. Can I better conclude this address than by borrow-