Influence of India on the health of British women, and on the prevention of uterine affections / by Edward John Tilt.

Date:
1868
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Credit: Influence of India on the health of British women, and on the prevention of uterine affections / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Becord of Lesions—continued. No. Age 26 27 28 SO 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 30 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 29 30 30 40 60 45 43 65 05 60 50 30 19 50 40 35 28 42 32 13 26 22 Uterus. Patty degeneration Natural Ditto (Displaced fundus adherent to rec- tum Natural Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto iDisplaced toripiit side, hard and swollen Natural Hard and email Natural Ditto Ditto f Fibrous tumour j I of t he fundus ... j Natural Ditto Long neck Natural Large and soft Natural Ditto Healthy Cervix and Os Uteri. Cervix and oB ulcerated ... Tubercles in cervix Natural (Cervix long and large,) (. bent slightly backward J ( Ulcers within the canal > (. of the cervix } Healthy Cervix and os congested... Healthy Ulcers in cervix Healthy Cervix much ulcerated ... Natural Cervix hard, os small Cervix swollen and red ... Natural Ditto Ditto Os very red, abraded Natural Ditto f Cervix fissured and) (, hard; Os red, abrasion J Reddish Natural Ditto Extensively ulcerated Ovaries and Fallopian Tubes. Ovaries absorbed. Ovaries red. Healthy. Natural. Ovaries very hard. f Fallopian tubes adhe- ( rent. Healthy. Hydatids in left ovary, f Ovaries sound, Fallo- \ pian tubes obliterated. Scirrhus of right ovary. i Ovaries congested, Pal- i lopian tubes oblite- { rated. Right ovary atrophied. Ovaries small. Healthy. Ditto. Ditto. Natural. Natural. f Right ovary very hard t and horny. Healthy. Left ovary corrugated. Natural. Undeveloped. Natural. Inflamed. With, regard to the nature of the uterine diseases that come under observation, Dr. Stewart, at Calcutta, and Dr. Scott, the chief medical officer of the Madras Hospital for Diseases of Native Women, assert that, whether it be studied at the bedside or in the disseotiag-room, uterine inflammation presents the same appearances in the Hindoo' as in the European. Mr. Robert Clarke, who for twenty years was colonial surgeon at Sierra Leone, iafoi-ms me that amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhcea, leucon'hceaj and profuse men-
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