On the causes and treatment of abortion and sterility; being the result of an extended practical inquiry into the physiological and morbid conditions of the uterus, with reference especially to leucorrhoeal affections and the diseases of menstruation / [James Whitehead].

  • Whitehead, James, 1812-1885.
Date:
1847
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Credit: On the causes and treatment of abortion and sterility; being the result of an extended practical inquiry into the physiological and morbid conditions of the uterus, with reference especially to leucorrhoeal affections and the diseases of menstruation / [James Whitehead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlie beginning of the treatment, her condition having become greatly improved, she had a slight rigor accompanied with aching of the back and limbs, and recurrence of the abdomi¬ nal enlargement. These indications of vascular determina¬ tion towards the uterus were treated by means of the hot hip-bath, and a moderate sized blister applied to the hvpo- gastrium; the chalybeate preparation also, with aloes, was continued. On the 27th of January, seventeen days after the date of the first report, the menses appeared, and continued to flow in sufficient quantity for three days : they have since been regularly repeated. The tonic treatment was continued about a month longer, when she was discharged cured. Case XIII. Suppression of the Menses; Asthma; Cure. B. A., of the phlegmatic temperament, sempstress, men¬ struated for the first time, at sixteen years of age, after a period of ill health. During her fifteenth year, the physical proportions became rapidly developed, and the functional change was daily looked for. The menses, however, did not appear, and at the age of fifteen and a quarter, the health began visibly to fail. She complained of great lassitude, loss of appetite, irregular bowels, disturbed sleep; pain and swell¬ ing of the feet and ankles, aching of the loins, “gravel pains,” and enlargement of the abdomen. Medical treatment was had recourse to; but the symptoms increased in severity, especially the dropsical swelling, which soon implicated the upper as well as lower extremities, and the face. She now exhibited hysterical symptoms in occasional attacks of asth¬ matic breathing, accompanied with palpitation and faintness. A few weeks later, the breathing became more painfully affected, and decided asthma, to which a tendency was in¬ herited from her father, set in. For seven or eight months she was under medical treatment, which effected no beneficial