Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . condition of thesupports of the womb, and the consequent relaxed state ofthe vagina, are not owing to the manner in which womenclothe themselves. The pelvic part of the female is keptalways in a state of unnatural warmth, from the load ofpetticoats and other unnameable female attire. Contrastbut the difference between the simple unlined trowsers ofthe male and five or six-fold cloth
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . condition of thesupports of the womb, and the consequent relaxed state ofthe vagina, are not owing to the manner in which womenclothe themselves. The pelvic part of the female is keptalways in a state of unnatural warmth, from the load ofpetticoats and other unnameable female attire. Contrastbut the difference between the simple unlined trowsers ofthe male and five or six-fold clothing of the other sex : ei-ther the one must yield too much warmth, or the otherroust strike too cold. The sedentary habits of women haveof course much influence. When retention of urine follows the falling down orpartial descent of the womb, the female should lie on herback, press the uterus into the pelvis, and urinate in thatposition. The womb, beside becoming displaced, is subject to aneversio-ii, or a turning inside out. Happily, such cases areunfrequent, but any disturbance of so important an organdemands the promptest * 150 A POPULAR TREATISE DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND THE USE OF The introduction of the stethoscope and the speculnmconstitute two important epochs in medical science—theformer ascertaining, by the conveyance of sound, diseasein the most hidden and inaccessible parts of the humanframe, and the latter bringing to view structures which,without such aid, are necessarily veiled from our speculum consists of an instrument formed of silver 01steel, that without pain or inconvenience is passed into theTagina, when, by a simple contrivance, it is made to ex- ON VENEREAL DISEASES. 151 panel and dilate the vaginal passage, and thereby exposeto view the entire canal, together with the uterine usefulness of such a method, whereby disease can atonce be detected, admits of no dispute. It is physicallypainless ; and if opposed
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