Clinical lectures on diseases peculiar to women / by Lombe Atthill.

  • Lombe Atthill
Date:
1876
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    CLINICAL LECTURES ON DISEASES PECULIAR TC WOMEN. LECTURE I. Introductory Remarhs—Mode of Examining Patients—Use of Specuhcm— Fergusson's—Bi-valve—D^ick-hilL — Uterine Soiind—Method of Introduction—Information to he Ob- tained from its Use—Bi-mamial Method of Examination. GENTLEMEN~It is of course essential to the right treat- ment of any disease, that the condition of the affected organ should be carefully and scientifically investigated. To assert such a pa]pa,ble truth seems almost absurdyet when coming together as we now do, to investigate the symptoms, and discuss the treatment, of the diseases of the female genital organs, it must be borne in mind, and I feel bound to im- press upon you the importance of the simple proposition I have kid down. Not a year passes that I do not meet with instances in which practitioners lose credit and charac- ter by neglecting, or being unable skilfully, to make the examination necessary in the class of cases we are about to consider. What physician would dream of prescribing for a case of becmoptysis without previously ascertaining the con- dition of the thoracic visceral Yet many do not hesitate to B
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