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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    In some less severe cases the probe may be charged with solution of iodine, or iodine and carbolic acid one to four, or a hollow sound fitted to the thermo-cautery may be passed rapidly into the dilated cavity of the uterus. This treatment should be followed up by tonics, the next cata- meniali epoch carefully watched, and no return to ordinary duties or those of married life permitted until the symptoms subside. Endocervicitis. Endocervicitis differs from endometritis in the inflammation being confined to the cervical zone. The pain produced, and also the dysmenorrheal pain are located more in the sacrum ; the cervix is tender to the touch, and felt to be swollen and puffy, the lips everted, the os patent, and the dis- charge glairy, or in some cases muco-purulent. Coitus is at the same time extremely painful. If the sound is used, after it has passed the cervical canal it gives no further pain, nor is its introduc- tion ordinarily followed by bleeding as in endo- metritis, nor does it leave behind it the prolonged aching that its passage in the former disease does. Just before the menstrual epoch the lips of the