A handbook of uterine therapeutics and of diseases of women / by Edward John Tilt.

  • Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.
Date:
1868
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Credit: A handbook of uterine therapeutics and of diseases of women / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a chloroform liniment, two scruples of the sedative being added to an ounce of almond-oil. These remedies will not be always effectual. I have shown at page 80 that vaginal pruritus is best cured by the injection of a strong solution of the nitrate of silver, or by painting the vagina with the tough nitrate of silver. Even this has not cured the lady whose sufferings I mentioned, but it relieved tliem for a time : when the pain is bearable, she prevents its increase by resting with her feet high up, more Americano, by cold-water injections, and by belladonna sup- positories placed in the vagina. In this case, pruritus is associated with general hypersesthesia of the nervous system, the skin being often subject to a similar distressing irritation. Pruritus of the vagina is one of the distressing symptoms of uterine cancer. Mammary Complications.—Though in women the breasts are far removed from the womb, they are so closely allied to it, and enter so largely into the venereal orgasm, that their pathological relationship might be inferred. More or less intense pain of the breasts is a frequent complication of uterine inflammation; and more particularly when the body of the womb is affected, an aching, burning pain attacks the breasts, occasionally mammary tenesmus, or the breasts are swollen, sometimes secreting mucus or a milky fluid, and repeatedly discharging a muco-lacteal secretion at the menstrual periods. In one case, the breasts were so enormously swollen, hot, tense, and glistening, that I feared an abscess, particularly in the right breast, where there had been one fifteen years before. The avoidance of pressure from Ul-made stays, the application of cotton-wool to the breasts, and anointing them with camphorated liniment will be found beneficial; but the most powerful remedy is the extract of belladonna diluted with glycerine. Vesical Disturbance.—To understand clearly the rationale of the sexual and rectal disturbance caused by uterine inflam-