Resume of a report on position, pneumatic pressure and mechanical appliance in uterine displacements : read before the Georgia Medical Association at Savannah, April 23d, 1875 / by Henry Fraser Campbell.

  • Campbell, Henry Fraser, 1824-1891.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Resume of a report on position, pneumatic pressure and mechanical appliance in uterine displacements : read before the Georgia Medical Association at Savannah, April 23d, 1875 / by Henry Fraser Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RESUME. The accompanying synopsis having been submitted to my ■revision, both in the manuscript and the proof, I must content myself with allowing it to go to distribution, as my own paper. Inasmuch, however, as this Journal may reach many who may never see the fuller discussion, to be published in the Transac- tions of the Georgia Medical Association, a few words of explan- ation may not be deemed altogether unimportant; for while it contains nearly all the essentials of the Report it is intended to condense, the restricted and compendious scope of such a resume allows room for little more than “ bare assertion.” I have refrained for years, from any published discussion of this important measure of treatment, while I have, during that time, fully demonstrated its principles and pointed out its appli- cations, in my clinical lectures to medical classes. It has appeared to me that, unless its announcement were incorporated with some extended exposition of its value, in connection with the various forms of uterine displacement and the conditions to which it is applicable, its fate would be that of many most valuable ideas, which, though of admitted merit, had, from inadequate presenta- tion, failed either to fix the attention or to modify the procedures of the profession. Indeed, knee-and-breast posture, as a measure of uterine reposition, presents a curious illustration of such a tendency. It seems to have been signally fated to pass from the minds and out of the practice of some of the most distinguished men who have had the opportunity of utilizing it to this impor- tant end. In regard to the note referring to Dr. Sims in the resume, we can only say, that his connection with the revival of knee-and-breast posture has been fully and, we hope, most fairly considered in our report. Every one must admit that it was only the transcendaut brilliancy of his achievements, in the department