A practical treatise on inflammation of the uterus, its cervix and appendages : and on its connexion with uterine disease / by James Henry Bennet.

  • James Henry Bennett
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1853
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Credit: A practical treatise on inflammation of the uterus, its cervix and appendages : and on its connexion with uterine disease / by James Henry Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AH) vlF I EI AN;. 2-15 same means of treatment, as, I Percy Mid Baron Larrey. It does no:, however, ear that these nigg - until adopted by M. Jobert de Lamballe, the talented Paris sur._ who has for many years resorted, with _ treating ulcer. I inflammatory in d of the nee. uterus. Indeed he adopts the actual cautery as a general means of treatment, using it in sasefl of sim: - ireU as in. inflam: by. In01 . :•: the vagina □ m :. cautery, especially if the one employed is large, an ivory .inical speculum may be used, ivor id eonduc ric This precaution, although always ad y M. Jobert, u ever, One, two, >r tl aaped can ;n be extinguished on the part of tbe cervix has to be cauterized. An eschar, more or less deep, is tb by cauterization with potassa fusa. It is necessary that the cautery should be brought to a white he on being withdrawn. Bnt little pain is experi tb | either at the time, or subsequently, the eschar falling off from the sixth to the tenth day, according to t' h of the cauterriz When the actual cautery is anm itory by] extrophy, as duv huyioi I the uteru- natural size. actual cautery, as a I met with but little encou: gei I I'aris Burgeons, stated by many to be inefficient and unsafe. I can, however, confi- dently assert, from what I saw ;■: M. Jobert'fl pi hen I w tause-surgeon at the Hdf : Louis, in 1840, and from the results which I have myself since . . thai :'. perfectly unfounded. I have never known any - symptoms to follow its use. whereas I car. tesl sacy in very many insl ise. I must, how :f the cases in which I have used the actual cautery to cauterize the orifice of the cervical cavity. - ry. The local inflammation produced by the elimination of the esc] long, and the rather unhealthy character. This I do recollect having observed after us:: isa fusa. M. Jobert thi m with the actual cautery | --esses peculiar advantages as compared with potassa fusa. I . how- ever, that he is mistaken in this respect, and th ro methc i identical in their . My friend. M. L :.o was for three years M. Jobert'fl house-surgeon, and during that time saw most of his uterine cases, has written an interesting d the use of the actual cautery, which may be col- faithfully to represent M. Jobert's opinions. If. Laures states that it is difficult to appreciate rig the depth to which the Vienna paste will disorganize - res of the ae neck: that instead of exciting in the neighbouring rable reaction, it weaken- and exercises a -
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