Observations on the physiology of the female genital organs, being a report to the Science Committee of the British Medical Association / by W. Blair Bell and Pantland Hick.
- William Blair-Bell
- Date:
- 1909
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Credit: Observations on the physiology of the female genital organs, being a report to the Science Committee of the British Medical Association / by W. Blair Bell and Pantland Hick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ment regarding amenorrhoea, and also that lactation hastens the progress of the disease.^^ Conclusions. 1. That menstruation is a periodic function only in so far as the calcium metabolism is in harmony with this periodicity, and that the function is dependent upon the calcium metabolism in all its ramifications. 2. That the haemorrhage into the Graafian follicle may be coincidental, and is probably the result of the lowered coagulability of the blood or vasomotor changes; but that rupture of the follicle is in no way responsible for menstruation. 3. That the bleeding from the uterus, while due to the lowered coagulability of the blood in part, is also dependent on the local changes in the capillaries from which the diapedesis of leucocytes and corpuscles occurs; and, further, that these leucocytes are an active factor in the conveyance of calcium salts from the glands to the exterior. 4. That the uterine glands excrete calcium and mucin, and that therefore the uterus is a “ menstrual organ.” 5. That there is a correlation between the ovaries and uterus in reference to menstruation, but that the ovary is probably no more predominant than other ductless glands in this respect. 6. That menstruation per se is not a necessary adjuvant nor concomitant to fertility and reproduction. Keferences. 1 Menstruation and its Relationship to the Calcium Metabolism, W, Blair Bell, Trans. Boyal Soc. Med., July, 1908. 2 Some Observations on the Physiological Importance of the Calcium Salts, W. Blair Bell, Liverpool Med.-Chir. Joiirn., July, 1908. ^ investigations on the Coagulation of the Blood during Menstruation, Birnbaum and Osten, Arcliiv f. Gynaek., Band Ixxx, Heft 2 [these investigators were unable to determine the causal factor]. ^ Gabritschewsky, Annal. de VInstitut Pasteur, 1894, vol. viii, p. 673. ^ Marshall and Jolly. 6 Ernst Holzbach, Zeit. f. Geb. u. Gyn., Bd. Ixi, Heft 3. 7 w. Heape, Quart. Trans. Microscop. Soc. 8 Stevenson, On the Menstrual Wave, Amer. Journ. Ohstet., vol. XV, 1882. ^ Axenfeld, Neurolog. Centralbl., 1903, p. 608. *0 Harvey Cushing, Jouy'n. of Nervous and Mental Lis., 1906, xxxiii, 2, p. 292. Patellani, Ann. d. Obstet. e. Gin., 1907, March and April. 72 Johnstone, The Menstrual Organ, Brit. Gynaec. Journ., 1886, p. 292. C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22466484_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
