Upon the constitutional causes of uterine catarrh : with notes of personal observations. / A graduation thesis by Mary Edith Pechey presented to the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern ; and accepted by the Faculty on the report of Dr. Peter Muller.

  • Pechey-Phipson, Edith, 1845-1908.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Upon the constitutional causes of uterine catarrh : with notes of personal observations. / A graduation thesis by Mary Edith Pechey presented to the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern ; and accepted by the Faculty on the report of Dr. Peter Muller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with ril Ivliei co, gr, viii. after dinner, or Pil Podophyllin (gr. ]; of tlic extract) at night. The Icucorrhoea had almost ceased when last she attended, and menstruation had become more regular. Case 2.—C. H., aged 20, single, dressmaker, Menstruation is regular, but scanty and painful. She complains of Icucorrhoea in the intervals, of a feeling of weight in the head, especially on stooping, and lately has suffered from sickness after food. As might be expected from her sedentary occupation, she suffered greatly from habitual constipation. As the sickness was the most pressing symptom at the time, she had Bismuthi Subnitratis gr. vi.. Magnesias Carbonatis gr. viii., Acidi Hydrocyanici dil, min: iiss, Infusi Calumbae 3j :—ter die, till it was better j then took steadily Tinct. Perri Mur. min: iii, Inf. Quass. thrice daily, with Pil. Aloes Barb. gr. viii. every night; and got gradually but surely better, losing the headache, the dysmenorrhoea, and Icucorrhoea. She was from the first warned of the necessity of taking exercise every day, and of having a daily evacuation of the bowels. In the two following cases the symptoms were very similar; the patients came to the hospital about the same time, had very much the same treatment, and yet the result in the two cases was very different, one being discharged quite well in five months, the other still attending in the tenth month, and though improved, not making much progress. This I always attributed to the fact that while one was a woman of more than average intelligence and determination of character, willing to take some pains to acquire a better and more regular habit of body, the other either did not believe in the importance of overcoming her habitual constipation, or was too lazy to take the pains to master a long-standing habit. Ca%e 3.—C. H., aged 35, married 11 years. Complains of profuse yellow discharge between the catamenial periods, with pain at the bottom of the back and between the shoulders. The pain runs down the course of the sciatic nerve also. She has long suf-