A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . greatly enlarged in cases of atresiaof the vagina. Dr. Emmet f mentions the case of a youngwoman who, after being married several years without a men-strual flow, was found to have copulated with her distendedurethra, and neither her husband or herself had suspected thetrue condition. After opening up the vagina the urethra usually con tractsto a normal size. The closure of the vagina must, of neces-sity, cause a retention of blood in the uterus; and this con-dition is called hcematometra. In cases w
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . greatly enlarged in cases of atresiaof the vagina. Dr. Emmet f mentions the case of a youngwoman who, after being married several years without a men-strual flow, was found to have copulated with her distendedurethra, and neither her husband or herself had suspected thetrue condition. After opening up the vagina the urethra usually con tractsto a normal size. The closure of the vagina must, of neces-sity, cause a retention of blood in the uterus; and this con-dition is called hcematometra. In cases where vicariousmenstruation is not otherwise established, sometimes hseinat-emesis, haemoptysis, or epistaxis seem to take the place ofthe catamenia and become vicarious menstruations; at othertimes hemorrhage from the rectum takes place as a vicariousmenstruation, when there is no communication between theuterus and bowel. The occlusion may exist as a transverse septum in the ?Barnes Diseases of Women, page 203. t Emmets Prin. and Prac. of Gynaeology, page 207. ATRESIA OF THE VAGINA. 503. Fig. No. 47. Atresia of thic Vagina with HjEMatometra. vagina (see Fig. 47), or it may affect the lower portion only,or the os uteri externum or internum may be the seat of theocclusion, or it may affect the entire cervical canal. Eithercondition may develop hsematometra, whichwill be situated above the location of theadhesion. Professor Emmet* relates a case ofdouble uterus and vagina with atresia ofone of the vaginae. (See Fig. 48.) Hesays : Some years since I was consultedby a woman about nineteen years of age,who had never menstruated regularly, andwished relief from a sense of pressure andbearing down which had existed for severalyears. She was exceedingly nervous; Ihad great difficulty in completing a thor-ough examination, and was not a little puz-zled to make out a diagnosis. To the left of the vagina wasfelt an accumulation of fluid extending as high as the fingercould reach, and from
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