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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    ondly, the relief of sterility. Both these ends, it is well known, are materially compromised by uterine displacements. Scarcely any uterine affection can escape complication with some form or degree of malposition; and, on the other hand, no malposition can persistently continue without at least a liability to both struc- tural and functional change. He said that though the several affections, comprehended under the general, head of uterine dis- placements, were well understood by the profession, and though they were generally carefully catalogued or tabulated in all -works on diseases of women, still there is liability to misunderstanding and confusion in their study, on account of the imperfect and incomplete classification of the several species of malposition. The several forms of the various conditions recognized as “ dis- placements,” while they bear sufficient resemblance to each other to admit of class-association, still there are generic difference?, which widely separate them, and which, until they are recognized in the tabulated classifications of the journals and books, must ever lead, and have already led, to much confusion in their dis- cussion. He is aware that any change in the established and long recognized relations of things, even though those relations may be false and inaccurate, is always regarded with disfavor by the profession; but inasmuch as, in this case, the evils of false classification must be felt by every one, and must constantly lead to increasing confusion year after year, he has proposed the fol- lowing arrangement, the principal feature of which may be said to consist in the introduction of genera and the recognition of generic differences, by which the vicious and incongruous association of iucognate species has been substituted by one which is more congenial and natural. While the nomenclature of uterine dis- placements is, in general, sufficiently descriptive, new names, in many instances, might be substituted to advantage; still Dr. C. retains the long recognized terms, rather than incur the risk of confusion, which the introduction of new, even though more defi- nite ones, might produce. SYNOPTICAL ARRANGEMENT OF UTERINE DISPLACEMENTS. Definition.—Conditions of the uterus, more or less affecting the health and fecundity of the subject, in which, whether from elevation or depression; or from changed direction; or from altered form, this organ, or any portion of it, has become abnormally related, to either the planes or the axes of its containing cavity, the pelvis, or to the other organs therein contained. They may be recognized under the following several genera:
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