The principles and practice of obstetrics / by Gunning S. Bedford.
- Gunning S. Bedford
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The principles and practice of obstetrics / by Gunning S. Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![similar ones in practice, and it is essentially important that your diag- nosis should be correct.—Page 402. Inversion of the Mucous Membrane of the Urethra in a married Wo- man, aged forty Years.—Mrs. P., aged forty years, returned to the Clinic to-day, and says she still has difficulty with her water. This case, you will remember, was one of inversion of the mucous membrane of the urethra. The outer surface of the protruding membrane was ulcerated. This I touched with a solution of the nitrate of silver; and I find now, upon examination, that the ulcer is completely healed. This woman, however, needs relief; and if she will permit me, I will remove with the curved scissors the projecting fold of membrane, and in the course of a few days she will be quite free from all annoy- ance. '• Madam, will you allow me to do what I think right for you? Yes, sir. [The patient was placed on the bed; the Professor grasped, with a pair of small forceps, the inverted membrane, and excised it with the curved scissors; and then applied to the cut surface the solid nitrat argenti.] It will be necessary for this woman to keep her bed for a few days, and to drink freely of diluents; this is all that will be required. —Page 403. Congestive Dysmenorrhoea in a Girl, twenty Years of age.—Jane L., who had suffered seriously from dysmenorrhoea for the past fourteen months, reports that her courses are quite regular, and the pain during the cata- menia is very slight. This girl, gentlemen, when she first came here, to use her mother's language, almost lost her senses from excessive suffer- ing, during her monthly sickness. It was a case of congestive dysmen- orrhoea, which was treated by the local abstraction of blood from over the sacrum, purgation, and a strictly vegetable diet. The result has been most gratifying.—Page 412. Granular Vaginitis in a married Woman, aged twenty-six Years.—Mrs. A. reports herself entirely relieved. This was an interesting case of disease, to which your attention was particularly directed when this pa- tient first presented herself here. On an examination, I find the vagina quite natural, free from both granulations and discharge. The treatment consisted in painting with a solution of the nitrate of silver the granu- lated surface, 3j of the nitrate to 1] of water, together with the daily use of the tepid hip bath.- The cauterization was employed five times at an interval of two days.—Page 421. Dysmenorrhea in a married Woman, aged twenty-four Years, from Strict-re of the Neck of the Womb.—Mrs. H., who had suffered for the last eight years from painful menstruation, and who had taken a great variety of remedies, as she informed us, without any relief, ie>](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21034357_0667.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
