Practical manual of diseases of women and uterine therapeutics : for students and practitioners / by H. Macnaughton Jones.

Macnaughton-Jones, Henry, 1844-1918.

Date:: 1885

Credit: Practical manual of diseases of women and uterine therapeutics : for students and practitioners / by H. Macnaughton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$applications. These varieties of dysmenorrhoea are, I think, rightly distinguished from that which is the consequence of stenosis associated with congenital malformation of the uterus, giving us the characteristic conical cervix and pin- hole aperture, or any of its varieties, or the imperfectly developed uterus with short cervix. Yet, as we are classify- ing a symptom and not a pathological condition, we must be satisfied to include this frequently occurring misfortune under the heading of ' obstructive.' Obviously it is scienti- fically inaccurate. For my part I prefer the classification of dysmenorrhoea as given below. Ovarian Uterine Atresic J Congestive (a) \ Neuralgic (h) {Congestive (a) Obstructive (b)] Inflammatory (c) Due to congenital malformation (d) Due to flexion of uterus (e) Due to blood states (/) 'Atresia of Fallopian tube ,, uterine canal vagina vulvar orifice Membranous—A special form of uterine dysmenorrhoea. Thus, uterine 'congestive' would include simple con- gestive conditions, plethoric states; 'obstructive,' such impediments as polypus and fibroid tumours, traumatic contraction; 'inflammatory'—endometritis, metritis; con- genital malformations, causing stenosis of os and cervix; flexions and versions, causing stenosis; blood states, as ancemia, chlorosis, and other depraved conditions. Now it is noticeable that I have not included here a sub-$