A treatise on the diseases of females / by William P. Dewees.

  • William Potts Dewees
Date:
1843
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of females / by William P. Dewees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may not appear at first sight to .^S^JJS^fe I practitioner may find it of gf »» B a the one instance, for the remedies which may be ound useiul in ^ ^ ^ may fail altogether in ™e_°mer: * -tv of lne uterus; even in discharge rarely proceeds from th cavty o t § be its most aggravated form,; and when it aoe*, i footed uP^nS as the most difficult of-anagemen ^ If Dr. Cullen's definition be admitted, >eucorn limited to the internal cavity of the ^erus.tseu. & He says, « Every serous or Piriform d'seharge i may be, and has been comprehended under one or othe appellations-leucorrhcea, fluor albus or whites. s> charges may be various and may P^/^^e^ treat of not yet well ascertained; but I confine my sell Aere^ hose discharges alone .which may ^V^rnedjo V£™J™ the same vessels, which in their »^.t^,^^ef4m^ From this definition of fluor albus,,it will be PJ^ved at once noticed, but at such times. How, the ™cmTg and even increases during ^nancy, and that whch o ly tan p,ace at that 1*U^£J*£%i£ teiftSSl fining this complaint to he vessel .J ■ indee(] Sa 1 conclude, says the doctor, « a discharge from the vagina ,o be oTa's kind/(namely, from the \ i i?rnm thi*s hannen ng to women who are suDjeci iw STtamLI^o flow onKelU and liable to this from causes WeTots^w^ between the two complaints, as stated by Dr. Cullen, ior our ex perience furnishes us with so many exceptions to this rule, inai we cannot look upon them as necessarily associated : we have seen many instances of menOrrhagia without leucorrhoea; and we have seen more cases of leucorrhoea without menorrhagia. Besides, the Doctor attributes this discharge following immode- rate flows of the menses, to causes weakening the vessels of the uterus. It is an evidence of weakened vessels, when they are forced to secrete a fluid of a colour and quality different from that of the natural, and at the same time very much more abun- dant. Is not secretion an action; and if that action prod greater quantity of a material, than it does when it is ac uces a is acknow-