Resume of a report on position, pneumatic pressure and mechanical appliance in uterine displacements : read before the Georgia Medical Association at Savannah, April 23d, 1875 / by Henry Fraser Campbell.

  • Henry Fraser Campbell
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1875
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Credit: Resume of a report on position, pneumatic pressure and mechanical appliance in uterine displacements : read before the Georgia Medical Association at Savannah, April 23d, 1875 / by Henry Fraser Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    internal support shall be used without previous reduction of the dis- located uterus, by pneumatic pressure in the Jcnee-and-breast posture: Again, when no less by the unhappy patients themselves, than by their medical attendants, self-replacement shall be recognized as “ The lieady Method ” of securing relief—relief from lumbar and sciatic pains, from aching knees, from vesical and rectal irritation; when it shall be known as a resource, often, for avert- ing abortion, and for educing magic comfort, out of the very midst of the Protean distresses of malposition; when, indeed, from their uniform relief to the suffering and the imperiled, pos- turing shall become as familiar as kneeling, and the repositor, as any implement of toilet convenience; then can we feel satisfied that this potent instrumentality has attained to the full and com- prehensive measure of its surpassing usefulness, and that it can never again fall into neglect and desuetude. Henry F. Campbell. Augusta, Georgia, April 24tli, 1875. SYNOPSIS. [From the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, June, 1875.] TREATMENT OF UTERINE DISPLACEMENTS.. Pbof. H. F. CAMPBELL, M.D., of Augusta, Ga. By the courtesy of a friend attending the Medical Association of Georgia, we are enabled to give the following abstract of Prof. Campbell’s remarks at the recent meeting in Savannah, of which we gave a brief synopsis in our report in the May Journal. This paper was crowded out of that number.—Ed. Jour. Dr. Henry F. Campbell, of Augusta, Professor of Operative Surgery and Gjuuecology in the Medical College of Georgia, was chairman of the Committee on Gynaecology for the Eighth Dis- trict. He gave a verbal resume of his lengthy report on Uterine Displacements and their Treatment by Position, Pneumatic Pres- sure and Mechanical Appliance. Dr. Campbell said : Every sexual abnormality may present two momentous desiderata: first, the health of the patient; sec-