A Practical Treatise On The Diseases Of Women Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Change of Life in Health and Disease: A Practical Treatise on the Nervous and Other Affections Incidental to Women at the Decline of Life Gynaecology, or the accurate study of diseases of women, is the youngest branch of medical literature, for it began in 1816, with Recamier and the better means of diagnosis that he introduced. The time that has elapsed since then, may be divided into two periods, the first extends from Recamier to Simpson, the second we are still in the midst of, and it dates from our illustrious countryman. The galaxy of Paris physicians who followed the lead of Recamier, had for object, to bring the sexual organs of women within the range of the general laws of pathology. Velpeau, it is true, taught the frequency and importance of uterine malformations and displacements, but inflammation was accepted as explaining most uterine diseases, and the therapeutical tendencies of this epoch were essentially medical without disparagement of surgery. Such was also the tendency of Dr. Henry Bennet's work, when in 1844, he made known to the profession in England what had been done in France. With Simpson began the more exclusive surgical tendencies that are still in the ascendant in England and America. He started the treatment of uterine displacements and flexions by pessaries, intra, and extra uterine, and while mature pathologists still hope to find a pessary, that can support and rectify the womb, without damaging it, every young gynaecologist has a pet pessary of his own, that no one else believes in. At one metropolitan school, the students are taught, that most diseases of women are caused by some twist or displacement of the womb and that a pessary is the keystone of uterine therapeutics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."