Diseases of women : their causes, prevention, and radical cure / by Geo. H. Taylor.

  • George H. Taylor
Date:
1871
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Credit: Diseases of women : their causes, prevention, and radical cure / by Geo. H. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    while the principle of therapeutic action remains nearly the same. Some may contend for local depletion, some for peripheral revulsion, others may insist on the sufficiency of loca] or general alteratives of specific virtues; but all agree in the necessity for diminishing the calibre of the pelvic vessels, and relieving their hypersemic con- dition. This is regarded as the essential prelim- inary to the assumption by vitality of the full control of the affected region and its various constituent parts. 4. Improved Methods. The peculiar efficacy of the therapeutic methods herein introduced to notice is in good part due to their superior power in the direction above indicated. They afford very great, indeed, well nigh perfect, control of the various causes of the hypersemic condition. They also cause interstitial mechanical activity. This results in correcting and perfecting the quality of the fluids, and also causes direct and rapid absorption of surplus fluids at any con- gested point. As these effects produce progres- sive amelioration of all symptoms, and prove rapidly curative, it follows that they supply still further evidence that local hyperemia constitutes the beginnings of ordinary pelvic disease.