Observations on some forms of inflammation and irritation of the bladder and vagina / by Lombe Atthill.

  • Lombe Atthill
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1866
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    [Reprinted from the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, May, 1866.] OBSERVATION S LOMBE ATTHILL, M.D., F.K.&Q.C.P., EXAMINER IN MIDWIFERY, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, IRELAND; AND FORMERLY ASSISTANT-PHYSICIAN, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL. [Read before the Dublin Obstetrical Society, 16th April, 1866.] There are no forms of disease productive of greater distress and suffering than those affections of the bladder which are met with not only in married but unmarried females ; and yet, while far from being uncommon, they seem to have attracted but comparatively little notice. Dr. Churchill has an excellent chapter on “ Reflex Irritation of the Bladder” in the last edition of his work on disease of woman, and the late Professor Montgomery read an interesting paper a few years ago on “ The Sympathy between the Uterus and Bladder,” before the Medical Society of the College of Physicians ; but I do not remember having seen the subject noticed elsewhere. I therefore thought the following remarks, founded on cases recently under my observation, would not be deemed uninteresting. In considering these affections, it is necessary to divide them into three classes, which, while presenting great similarity in their general symp- toms, depend on very different causes, and require for their cure very different treatment. We have, then, 1st. Those in which inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bladder occurs as a primary disease, either of an acute or chronic character. 2nd. Those in which inflammation, always in a chronic form, exists