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Observations on those diseases of females which are attended by discharges / By Charles Mansfield Clarke.

  • Clarke, Charles Mansfield, Sir, 1782-1857.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Observations on those diseases of females which are attended by discharges / By Charles Mansfield Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v4 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. not originally belonging to it, which are the consequences of high irritation, of ereat debility, or of the general disturb- ance of the constitution. In many of these diseases, when phy- sicians or surgeons are consulted, the patient mentions some prominent symp- tom, which is to her the apparent cause of annoyance; and this is often considered as the disease, and treated as such. With as much reason it might be ex- pected to remove ascarides from the rec- tum by making applications to the nostrils, or to diminish the effects of pressure upon the brain by medicines applied to the stomach to relieve sickness, (one of the symptoms of such pressure, ) as to cure a woman of an uterine disease in the manner above alluded to. Yet many instances are to be found, where strangury has been treated as an idiopathic affection of the bladder, when it has in fact been symptom- atic of a morbid state of the uterus; and also, where an itching of the external or-
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