The operative treatment of hyperplasia of the uterus and vagina : with special reference to the cure of displacements / by S.C. Gordon.
- Seth Chase Gordon
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The operative treatment of hyperplasia of the uterus and vagina : with special reference to the cure of displacements / by S.C. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[Reprinted from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and ^Children, Vol. XVII., December, 1884.] THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF HYPERE^EASIA , OF THE UTERUS AND VAGINA, WITH SPEC.iiAlS' ^EFm^fee TO THE CURE OF DISPLA ( P'y*- 1 '•n K[22F£l h- . S. C. GORDON, \ ' J Portland, Me. 4£gJ8AjA ( i That the treatment of a large majority of cases of retro- version of the uterus, so far as obtaining radical cure is con- cerned, is unsatisfactory, is now a quite generally accepted fact. That an immense amount of good has been done in way of relief is fully conceded, and that in a very large num- ber of cases complete cures have been the result, there can be no question. Artificial support by a great variety of pessaries has been the chief reliance, and under no circumstances could we dispense with them. We shall, by careful analysis, find, however, that most of the actual cures, so that no support is re- quired, will be among unmarried women, and those who, being married, have never borne children, or having borne children, suffered no accident at partm’ition either by laceration of cer- vix or perineum. In these cases we shall invariably find the walls of the vagina in their normal relation, that of close appo- sition. But there remains a much larger class of cases among parous women where this displacement exists, and all our ef- forts to retain the uterus in place, after the artificial support is removed, will prove futile. 1 think I am not stating the proposition stronger than the experience of the profession will justify, when I say that no one of the text-books or any of the current literature of the day claim any method of radical cicre, in this class named. In America, Thomas and Emmet have done much to popularize the use of pessaries, and many other * Read before the Obstetrical Section of the International Congress at Copenhagen,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22451420_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
