The therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics : comprising the medical, dietetic, and hygienic treatment of diseases of women.

  • William Biddle Atkinson
Date:
1881
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Credit: The therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics : comprising the medical, dietetic, and hygienic treatment of diseases of women. 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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    the sacrum; diminished in mo- I to prolapse; unusually mov- bility. Contained fluid thickish, mu- cous; of almost any tint; spec, grav. 1015-1030; very rarely coagulable; contains epithelial, cylindrical cells; often choles- terin, rarely pus corpuscles. able. Fluid thin, clear; yellowish or greenish; sometimes tinged with blood; spec. grav. 1005- 1015; sometimes coagulates after standing. Contains white blood corpuscles; seldom or never cylindrical epithelium or cholesterin. AMENORRHEA. Amenorrhea may be primative or acquired. In the first form menstruation has never taken place, or if it has occurred at all, the discharge has always been scanty, or has appeared at pro- longed intervals, or both. In the second form menstruation has taken place regularly and healthily, and has afterwards become suppressed. The following table represents the various forms of this affec- tion, their causes and pathological significance: Menstruation absent (emansio mensium). PRIMITIVE AMENORRHEA. f Uterus undeveloped or absent; I Ovaries well or ill-developed or absent, f Anaemia. Chronic disease. Bad hygienic conditions. Emotional shocks. Physical shocks. Acute diseases. Change of residence. Exposure. Bathing. Plethora. (?) No formation of decidua. Uterus well de- veloped, but inactive. Ovaries, well developed. Menstruation Scf.nty ■{ tion scant?' | cidua. forma- of de- Uterus small. Ovaries well or ill developed. Uterus well de- f Anaemia, veloped. \ Bad health. Menstruation Irregular and r^ R irregular generally] gmall b/ and g e n - J scanty forma-1 b ' u_ Llnty! ' 7 { cXa.^ ** [ Sloped. Anaemia. Bad health.
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