A treatise on the organic diseases of the womb.

  • John Balbirnie
Date:
[1836?]
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Credit: A treatise on the organic diseases of the womb. 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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    of the neck of the uterus, as well as of the mucous membrane of the vagina; its use, we contend, becomes of indispensable necessity, every time that there are symptoms to indicate disease of these organs. Without that, we expose ourselves to the most fatal errors. A disease, simple in its origin, and easily curable by the resources of our art, exists, unknown and undiscovered, because unexplored: by neglect and continuance, it may end in profound disorganisation, and compromise the life of the patient.* We cannot, then, attach too much importance to an exact knowledge of these diseases, by the general observation of practitioners so extremely common — diseases which often menace the exist- * II n'est point d'affection, remarks M. Melier, in reference to this exploration, dans laquelle elle donne des resultats plus positifs, et constitute veritablement une grande partie de l'art. Le praticien qui s'en occupe ne saurait trop se penetrer de cette verite, dont l'experience de chaque jour vient attester la haute importance. Rien ne peut tenir lieu de l'exploration: ni l'observation la plus minutieuse des symptoms generaux ou communs, ni l'etude la plus approfondue des circonstances commemoratives. II faut de toute necessite voir et toucher: sans cela on s'expose aux erreurs les plus funestes Tout derangement un peu prolonge des organs genitaux de la femme ou de leurs fonctions, toute incommodite qui persiste, toute souffrance meme legere qui se repete, doivent eveiller l'attention du medecin, et meritent examen. En se livrant, a des recherches convenables dans des cas, ou, au premier abord, elles auraient semble inutiles ou superflues, on est souvent tout etonne des resultats auxquelles on arrive, et des decouvertes que Ton fait. —Mem. de VAcad, Roy. de Med. t. iii. p. 330.
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