Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver.

  • Oliver, James
Date:
1888
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Credit: Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tions of the uterus are transmitted along the fallopian tubes, and although menstrual dis- orders may frequently result with distinct patho- logical changes existing in such, we must not too hastily conclude that these structures, per se, govern the uterine changes. In the science of medicine, there is no question more difficult, than that of determining cause and effect. In cases of anaemia we often witness either diminution or total suppression of the menses, rarely menorrhagia. As we regain the healthy state the function becomes re-established and maintained as it was wont. In such cases the functional activity of the uterus may cease or be lessened, not only because the nutrition of the nerve centre is defective, but also because the organ itself is badly nourished. Functional activity is associated with waste in every animal structure, and the structural integrity is main- tained, by the tissue appropriating from the blood circulating in it the ingredients necessary for its well-being. The blood of an anaemic patient is wholly unfit for nourishing nerve tissue, the functional activity of which becomes in such cases consequently enfeebled and wholly incapable of evoking spontaneously the train of events associated with menstruation. In order that the functional activity of any organ shall
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