Dysmenorrhea : its pathology and treatment / by Heywood Smith.

  • Smith, Heywood.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Dysmenorrhea : its pathology and treatment / by Heywood Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pathological condition, or even a phase of mischief arising in various forms; and to pursue our in- quiries scientifically and seriatim into the different maladies of the various anatomical regions of the organs of reproduction in the female, that present dysmenorrhea as one, if not the most prominent, symptom. It will not, therefore, be necessary here to enter into any particulars of the differentiating points of dysmenorrhea as to its position in the history of each catamenial period, nor into its varying dura- tion, intensity, and results, as these differences will be fully entered into in the consideration of those diseases wherein painful menstruation asserts itself as the symptom for the relief of which advice is most frequently sought. As the systematic consideration of dysmenorrhea will lead us into the study of a wide range of the diseases of women, it would necessarily follow that a strict limit must be placed on the scope of this essay, or otherwise it would grow into the mag- nitude of a large volume ; it will, therefore, be imperatively necessary to restrict our investigation to the pathology of this one symptom, disregarding all others, save such as present themselves as in- dissolubly associated with the symptom in question.