Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    cocci. Upon my protesting to him that marriage in his present condition was impossible, he in- sisted that it must go on, that all arrangements were made, and that the marriage could not be postponed. It was then explained to him fully, the probable and almost certain results of infec- tion of his wife, with its serious consequences; but it was evident that these statements were received with downright disbelief. He was deaf to expostulations and protests, and the marriage took place at the time appointed. “ A few weeks later he sent for me in great haste, saying that his wife was suffering horrible pain. Upon my visit I found a beautiful young woman doubled up with peritonitis, with a pro- fuse purulent discharge from the urethra, neck of the uterus, and evidences of purulent salpingitis. She was desperately ill for some two or three weeks, and then got better. At his express instance she remained under my care for nearly a )'ear. Dur- ing that period she was an invalid, scarcely able to walk, spending most of the time on a sofa ; and with each menstrual period there was a recurrent attack of suppurative inflammation of the annexa. He was Anally persuaded to consult a gynaecolo- gist ; but as both he and his wife were anxious to
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