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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    rheumatism, asthma, or cellular inflammation; abscesses, dropsical effusion, or vicarious ulcers; may be the means of relieving the system of, what the Hippocratic doctrine styles, its peccant humours. The following cases may serve to illustrate the character of this class of affections, and the remedial measures commonly adopted in their treatment. Case XVIII. Absence of Menstruation; Vicarious Epistaocis; Cure. It. D., aged thirteen years and a half, of the sanguine- bilious temperament, flax-dresser, had been in a feeble state of health, with violent headache, and alternate dullness and flushing of the surface, for ten weeks. One day, whilst at work, (in June, 1843,) during a severe accession of pain of the head and feverish excitement, bleeding from the nose came on, which afforded instant relief. The blood continued to flow profusely, in spite of repeated attempts to arrest it, and with only now and then a short interval of cessation, for three or four days, leaving the patient greatly enfeebled, but free from headache. Three or four weeks afterwards, (in July,) the pain and flushing returned, accompanied with aching of the back, distension of the abdomen, and vomiting, during which the nasal hoemorrhage reappeared, and conti¬ nued at intervals for several days. Its cessation was followed by complete mitigation of the other symptoms. A third repe¬ tition of the phsenomena as above described, was experienced the following month, (August,) succeeded by great debility, for which she was prescribed chalybeates. The patient was then removed to the sea-side, whence she returned much improved in health and strength. About a month after the last named attack, (in September,) a similar train of symptoms again made their appearance, for the relief of which the hot hip¬ bath was ordered to be used; five grains of the pulv. Jacobi combined with the same quantity of by dr. cu crcetd, were