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On Diseases of Menstruation and Ovarian Inflammation
On Diseases of Menstruation and Ovarian Inflammation Author:Edward John Tilt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a time, solidism so far prevailed as to cause the existence and nature of our fluids to be overlooked, and our very blood to be considered as a something provide... more »ntially placed in our vessels for the medical man to extract by leeches and phlebotomy. Dance, Husson, Baudelocque, Menifere, Andral, Dupuytren, Grisolle, Velpeau, and others, have recorded cases of pelvic abscess occurring in the puerperal state. So little, however, was known of ovarian inflammation, that in France, Nauche, Duges, and Madame Boivin, asserted that it was not possible for the ovaries to be inflamed, except during the puerperal state; while Madame Boivin maintained " that puerperal inflammation of the ovarium is the only type whence general considerations of the disease can be deduced." On the other hand, Montaut, to prove the fallacy of this belief, published an interesting paper, (Gazette des Hopitaux, 1827,) with cases, to prove that the ovaria could be idiopathically inflamed. Since then, Ashwell, Duparcque, Bourdon, and others, have published cases of idiopathic ovaritis. Dr. Doherty and Dr. Churchill have given us interesting accounts of pelvic abscesses, (Dublin Medical Journal, 184344,) and Dr. Lever has done the same in the Guy's Hospital Reports, 1844. In the same year, the question of pelvic abscesses was taken up by Marechal de Calvi as the subject of his Tlitse de Concours pour I'agregation a la Faculte de Paris ; and lately, Dr. Henry Bennet read before the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society a valuable paper on " Inflammation and Abscess of the Uterine Appendages in the Non-Puerperal State," re- published in The Lancet of July, 1848. But, on referring to these sources, the reader will see that only the acute form of ovarian inflammation is described, excepting in the valuable paper of Dr....« less