A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . ent they havehad with a failure to obtain relief; inquire further, and ascer-tain if we have two or three, or more, of these symptoms inthe same case; also, if there is dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea,menorrhagin, or leucorrhcea—if so, of how long duration,noticing all the peculiarities of each case in these into account the age of the patient, whether married orsingle, widows or spinsters, mothers or barren. When all these things are considered, and the difficulty 22 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOM
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . ent they havehad with a failure to obtain relief; inquire further, and ascer-tain if we have two or three, or more, of these symptoms inthe same case; also, if there is dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea,menorrhagin, or leucorrhcea—if so, of how long duration,noticing all the peculiarities of each case in these into account the age of the patient, whether married orsingle, widows or spinsters, mothers or barren. When all these things are considered, and the difficulty 22 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. has been of long standing, and we feel assured that ourpatients sufferings are caused from uterine disease, we arejustified in requesting a physical examination, per does not contemplate any exposure of the patient, andconsists of a digital examination, and taking note of thedryness or moisture of the vagina, heat, size of neck ofuterus, whether smooth, nodulated, or fissured; also, its posi-tion in the vagina, etc.,—all this may be determined with thepatient jSssP Fig. No. 1.—Examination Chair. (Mitchell, Rammelsberg & Co., Cincinnati, O.) Very chronic and severe cases, of course, will demandmore careful examination with the uterine sound, and some-times we may need the aid of the vaginal speculum as well, inaid of diagnosis. I value the uterine sound much more highlythan the vaginal speculum. In many cases, as I have hinted,neither of these instruments is needed. Introducing the vagi-nal speculum in all cases, as has become the routine habit ofsome gynaecologists, is not to be commended or use may be required in treatment much more frequently GENERAL DIAGNOSIS. 23 than in diagnosis. To make a vaginal examination I prefer tohave the patient sit in a regular examination chair. (See 1.) It is less embarrassing to the patient; it seems moremodest; it is more convenient for the physician. Let thecover be thrown over her lap wh
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