The ladies' physician : a guide for women in the treatment of their ailments / by a London physician.

Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ladies' physician : a guide for women in the treatment of their ailments / by a London physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the act of giving birth., for by the force of its power- fully contracting muscles is the child driven into the world. Entire absence of the uterus is very rare, but a rudimentary condition of the organ is less rare, though still not frequently met with. In persons in whom the womb is absent or rudimentary the menstrual flux is absent or scanty. The flow may take place without pain, but in many cases the pain accompanying the performance of the function is severe. The general configuration of the body is womanly, the hips are broad, the pelvis large, the breasts round and well developed. The menstrual molimena, or the aches and lassitude which so often accompany men- struation, may be present, though more often absent. Treatment is vain when the uterus is absent; and when the organ is rudimentary, there are no means yet discovered by which its development can be ensured. 3. The menses may have not made their appearance by reason of an obstruction to their outflow. In such a case the uterus and ovaries are present and perform their functions; the menstrual discharge is poured into the cavity of the womb, but, owing to the occlusion of the outlet, remains dammed up in the cavity of the uterus or the canal of the vagina, or passage leading to the womb. The obstruction is most frequently met with at the mouth of tho vagina. It is usually
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