On the constitutional treatment of female diseasesBlanchard and Lea, 1857 - 256 pagina's |
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abdomen abdominal circulation acid active menorrhagia amenorrhoea amount appearance applied arising attack becomes bladder blood calomel canal cancer catamenia cause cervix uteri character chiefly chylopoietic condition connected considerable constipation controul cyst debility derangement diagnosis digestive organs dilatation discharge disease displacement distended dose dysmenorrhoea effects emmenagogue especially examination excitement exsudations extr fæces fibrous tumour finger fluid frequently functions fundus gradually growth hæmorrhage hæmorrhoidal congestion increased inflammation inflammatory intestinal irritation laxative leeches less leucorrhoea ligature liver and bowels lower magnesia mass menorrhagia menstrual period ment mucous membrane natural observed obstruction occasionally occurs oophoritis orifice ovarian tumour ovary pain papillæ passive menorrhagia patient peculiar pelvis polypus posture pressure produced profuse prolapsus quantity rectum relief render result retroversion rouse secretion severe suffering surface swelling swollen symphysis pubis symptoms tion tonic treatment tumour ulceration unhealthy urethra urine usually uterine cavity uterine system uterus vagina vascular vessels
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Pagina 208 - ... 1. Given in doses of one-sixteenth to one-twelfth of a grain twice daily, two hours after eating, the iodide of arsenic is well borne, and may be continued without risk for several months. 2. The system generally soon gives evidence of its action — unusual perspiration with dryness of the fauces and alimentary canal occur.
Pagina 279 - the growth of this tumor is, on some occasions, so unperceived, that, though it may have originated on one side, it has already risen into the pubic, and even the umbilical region; and when the medical man is first consulted, its lateral origin is with difficulty ascertained. At other times the enlargement is at first slow, and after some indefinite period the increase takes place suddenly, so that in a few months the whole abdomen presents to a common observer the size and appearance of pregnancy...
Pagina 189 - The material composing these cancers (when not disordered by the effects of haemorrhage, inflammation, or other disease) is a peculiar, soft, close-textured substance, having very little toughness, easily crushed and spread out by compression with the fingers. It is very often truly brain-like, most like foetal brain, or like adult brain partially decomposed and crushed. Many specimens, however, are much softer than brain ; and many, though of nearly the consistence of brain, are unlike it, being...
Pagina 89 - ... a mixture of starch and water made without heat, or thin cream ; it is easily washed from the finger after an examination, and it is capable of being diffused through water, rendering it turbid.
Pagina 218 - There is a striking resemblance between itself and a portion of the upper surface of a cauliflower or a head of brocoli. The surface is granulated, and it consists of a great number of small projections, which may be picked off from the surface as the granules may be detached from the vegetable.
Pagina 209 - I have known most violent periodical headache, which had afflicted a lady for years, disappear whilst she was under the influence of the salt. 3. The pain of the tumour decreases in violence. 4. The size of the breast generally diminishes; and if the tumour itself does not actually lessen in bulk, I have at least found that its enlargement, previously more or less active and apparent, becomes, as far as can be determined, suspended. There is difficulty in establishing the fact, on account of the...
Pagina 162 - The instrument which I use for this purpose, and which in numerous cases has assisted me through the operation, consists of two silver tubes, each eight inches long, perfectly straight, separate from one another, and open at both ends. A long ligature, consisting of strong whip-cord, is to be passed up the one tube and down the other, and the two ends of the ligature hang out at the lower ends; the tubes are now to be placed side by side, and, guided by the finger, are to be passed up the vagina,...
Pagina 163 - ... tubes, which at the beginning of the operation were separate, are now fixed together as one instrument. By drawing the ends of the ligatures out at the lower external ends of the tubes, and then twisting and tying them on a part of the instrument which projects from the POLYPUS OF THE UTERUS. lower rings, the loop round the stalk is thereby tightened, and, like a silk thread round a wart, causes it to die and fall off.
Pagina 223 - It has been confounded by many with different forms of cancer, yet it is distinct from them in structure as well as in history, and had better be described by some name which may not add to the yearly increasing confusion that arises from the use of terms expressing likeness to cancer.
Pagina 266 - ... mass is at length forced past, to the indescribable agony of the patient, frequently leaving her in severe pain for many hours afterwards. In other cases the ovary is nearly or quite fixed, apparently having contracted adhesions to the neighbouring parts. It is not easy to speak decidedly as to the causes of this displacement, but I have chiefly or almost solely observed it in women of a lax, flabby habit, prone to constipation, passive menorrhagia, leucorrhcea, and abortion, but most particularly...