The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women.

  • Milne, Alexander
Date:
1871
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

    55/680 (page 23)
    quently be consulted Iqy niavried men sufteving from a mueo-purulent flow from the iienis, or “ yard” as it is popularly termed, and who have had no intercourse vdth any beyond their own chaste and reliable better- halves. They look tlie picture of melancholy and in- dignation, and no wonder; for, in addition to the pain occasioned by their iiseudo-gonorrhcea, which, however, is not very great, they suft'er from a sadly perturbed mind, believing that their wives must have been guilty of illicit connection. They will say to you : “This is most extraordinary and unaccountable ; they have not strayed from the legitimate ])ath,” and they have sad fears and doubts as to the fidelity of their wives. In such circumstances it is better at once to tell the iiatient that he may have such a discharge and yet his wife be unswervingly true; that there is such a flux apart from venereal infection. Our own experience lias taught us that the man is, as a rule, the most errant and unfaithful, and that husbands more frequently soil the purity of their wives, than the latter pollute the former. If you were hastily to pronounce the dis- charge a clap, you would assuredly plant the seeds of hatred in the husband’s breast, and destroy for ever the happiness of a true and innocent wife. Within the posterior commissure is a fold of mucous membrane called the fourchette, which rarely escapes laceration in primiparous cases. During labour a depression may be felt between this fold and the edge of the perimeum; it is termed the fossa navicularis. 34. Cowper’s Glands.—Tliese are the most im])or tant of the vulvo-vaginal. They are about the size of an almond, and are placed, one on each side of the orifice of tlie vagina. They secrete mucus, and arc occa.sionally the seat of abscess. The function of the labia is to facilitate the expansion of the external opening during labour. 35. The Labia Interna or Minora, or Nymphae, are placed just within the external labia. They extend