On surgical diseases of women / by I. Baker Brown.

  • Isaac Baker Brown
Date:
1866
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    CHAPTER XIII. CERTAIN SURGICAL LESIONS CONNECTED WITH STERILITY IN THE FEMALE. A general dissertation on the causes and treatment of sterility in the female would be out of place in this work, but the frequent dependence and association of that condition with certain lesions of the pelvic viscera, removable by surgical means, renders requisite a brief review of these latter. Since the publication of the last edition, medical literature has been enriched by several treatises on this subject, and in this country especially by Dr. Marion Sims's work.* Some of the causes giving rise to sterility are congenital and structural; others are the result of disorders of the genera- tive organs—of the uterus and the vagina; whilst others, again, are referrible to sympathy with disease in contiguous viscera ; lastly, there are some connected with the state of the general health, the constitution, and the state of the nervous system. The whole may be arranged in the following groups :— 1. Absence of the uterus and ovaries. 2. Disease of the ovaries. 3. Atrophy of uterus and ovaries. 4. Diseases of uterus and of Fallopian tubes. a. Hypertrophy. e. Polypus. b. Inflammation. /. Neuralgia. c. Fibrous tumour. g. Ulceration. d. Cancer. * Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery.—With special reference to the management of the Sterile Condition. London : Hardwicke. 1866.