A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . mounting to complete procidentia! I restored the organ by 26 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. appropriate treatment, and within three days she ceased tocomplain of the fish-bone in her throat. Some little attentionto maintain the womb in situ was all the case required, and acomplete cure was the result. Case Third.—A miss, aged about twenty-three years, con-sulted me, about four years since, as to her cough, that hadexisted some three years, and resisted all treatment. Oninquiry, I found that menstruation
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . mounting to complete procidentia! I restored the organ by 26 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. appropriate treatment, and within three days she ceased tocomplain of the fish-bone in her throat. Some little attentionto maintain the womb in situ was all the case required, and acomplete cure was the result. Case Third.—A miss, aged about twenty-three years, con-sulted me, about four years since, as to her cough, that hadexisted some three years, and resisted all treatment. Oninquiry, I found that menstruation had been getting more andmore scanty for three or four years, until it was entirelyabsent for some six months past. I made, or rather at-tempted to make, a vaginal examination, and found an imper-forate hymen completely closing the vaginal orifice. (Theremust have formerly existed a small opening, that had grad-ually closed by adhesive inflammation.) I operated on thecase, assisted by the late and honored Dr. Troyer, of Peoria,111., removed a small amount of retained menstrual flow (the. Fig. No. 2.—Virgin Os Uteri. small amount being due to her emaciated condition), and suc-ceeded, by proper remedies, in restoring normal healthy men-struation. In a few months my patient was fully recoveredfrom her cough, and had become rosy and fleshy. I might go on relating numbers of cases as striking asthese occurring in my private practice; but I do not think awork on diseases of women should be very much cumbered GENERAL DIAGNOSIS. 27 with the detail of cases, and should be only mentioned insufficient number to demonstrate the principle under con-sideration. It will be seen that we fully believe that it is sometimesimperatively necessary to make vaginal examinations in virginpatients. In examining the virgin per vaginam, we can gen-erally introduce but one finger. This should be well smearedwith some oily substance. I prefer vaseline, as its healingproperties make it desirable in cas
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