Electricity in the diseases of women : with special reference to the application of strong currents / by G. Betton Massey.

  • Massey, G. Betton (George Betton), 1856-1927.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Electricity in the diseases of women : with special reference to the application of strong currents / by G. Betton Massey. 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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    August 21st. Slight tenderness persists. August 28th. Menstruation appeared on the 22d (for the first time in eleven months), accompanied by bearing- down pains. Negative cauterization, eighty milliam- peres, five minutes. September 1st. Leucorrhoeal discharge colored with blood. Positive cauterization, eighty milliamperes, four minutes. September 6th. Positive cauterization, eighty mil- liamperes, four minutes. September 13th. Positive cauterization, one hundred milliamperes, five minutes. September 20th. No further bleeding. The projec- tion is much diminished, and cavity of uterus diminished to three and a half inches. Negative cauterization, one hundred and fifty milliamperes, four minutes. October 4th. Menstruation appeared on time, normal in amount and duration. Negative cauterization, one hundred and fifty milliamperes, three minutes. October 16th. The pelvic pains complained of have disappeared. Negative cauterization, one hundred and fifty milliamperes, three minutes. October 30th. Negative cauterization, seventy mil- liamperes, three minutes. November 13th. Menstruated again on date (October 30th), lasting six days. Cavity of uterus reduced to two and a half inches, plus, and the tumor appears only as a slight roughness on posterior wall. .; Intra-mural Fibroids.—This form, while the most numerous, as already remarked, is also the form in which greatest distortion of the uterus occurs. It is peculiarly the subject of electrical treatment, being both most