Considerations on the efficacy of electricity, in removing female obstructions : to which is now added a description of the manner of applying it / by John Birch, surgeon.

  • John Birch
Date:
1780
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Credit: Considerations on the efficacy of electricity, in removing female obstructions : to which is now added a description of the manner of applying it / by John Birch, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ i'6 ] thought otherwife, and I have reafon td refpect his opinion. The Retention of the menfes, for which me was put under my care, was not re- moved.—-I continued to electrify her daily, and could produce a difcharge of a whitifh colour from the uterus, after a mock of a certain ftrength : this led me to imagine, the afTiftance of tonic medi- cines would produce the proper dif- charge 5 and on the 23d of July I had mentioned this opinion to the Doctor when the nurfe of the ward informed us our patient had been taken out of order the preceding evening, about an hour after I. had electrified her. ¥bey continued to flow rather pro- fufely for fix days, and then ceafed.— The labia pudendi, on examination, had three or four lar^e ulcers remaining, but the
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