A treatise on the diseases and special hygiène of females / By Colombat de l'Isère. Translated from the French, with additions, by Charles D. Meigs.

  • Colombat de l'Isère, 1797-1851.
Date:
1850
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases and special hygiène of females / By Colombat de l'Isère. Translated from the French, with additions, by Charles D. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    deviations, the incurvations, the inversion, elevation and immobility of the uterus; the different hernias of the organ, as *well as of the ovaria; the prolapsus of the lining membrane,^ind the invagination of the vagina ; in fine, the prolapsus and thickening of the lining membrane of the urethra ; while the vulvar and vaginal cystoceles and enteroceles have been particularly the objects of our close attention. In the third section, which comprises all the solutions of continuity, the contusions, wounds, lacerations, and ruptures of the vulva, perineum, vagina, and womb ; the contusions and wounds of the breast, and in fine, the introduction of foreign bodies into the genital cavities, we have proposed various instruments to facilitate and ensure the surgical operations required by these lesions, especially the vaginal fistulas. In the fourth section, which alone consists of near two hundred pages, and in which are collected the different phlegmasias, acute and chronic, superficial or deep-seated, the transformations, the degenerations, and all the morbid productions of the vulva, vagina, uterus, ovaries and mammae, we have made known several in- struments of our own invention, for the surgical treatment of the polypous tumours and cancerous affections of these organs. Tor the purpose of facilitating a comparison and impartial judgment of the measures we have proposed, we have mentioned and described with equal fidelity, most of those that have been employed by Qther medical men; and we were prevented from giving figures along with the descriptions of the operative proceedings, merely by the consideration that most of them are already of no recent date, and, therefore, generally known. In the fifth section, not only have we endeavoured to forget nothing relating to the functional lesions and the neuroses peculiar to females, but we have advanced some new ideas on the causes, diagnosis and treatment of uterine haemorrhage, amenorrhoea, chlo- rosis, nymphomania and hysteria. We pass in silence by the sixth section, which figures in our synoptical table of the diseases of women, because it comprises those lesions that are relative to reproduction, which do not enter into the plan of the present work, and which, moreover, are of sufficient impor- tance to induce us to consecrate to them a special Treatise, wholly independent of the present one. To complete our prefatory sketch of the plan of this volume, let us remark, that previously to entering properly upon our task, we have given Four chapters, 1. comprising the history of the physical, moral and physiological changes that occur in women at different periods of life. 2. The varieties of conformation; the surgical