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Identifier: diseasesofwomenc00herm (find matches)
Title: Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Herman, G. Ernest (George Ernest), 1849-1914
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, W. Wood & Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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conjectural, for no one has yet demonstrated any morbidchanges in the ovary in such cases. * See Balls-Headley, The Evolution of the Diseases of Women, passim. GHEONIG OVARIAN PAIN. 83 It is not uncommon, after an acute illness, for vounsrwomen to complain of ovarian pain. The nervous systemis weak, and the ovary becomes painful because it is theweakest spot. Mild counter-irritation, with rest, liberal diet,and tonics, removes this pain in a few days. Possibly if thispain were left untreated, it might become inveterate. Myexperience is limited to cases of these two kinds—(a) long-standing pain dating back to an illness; (b) recent painquickly cured. I have not seen the one pass into theother. 84 CHAPTER IX. CHRONIC UTERINE PAIN ; SUBINVOLUTION AND CHRONIC METRITIS. Chronic pelvic pain may be a continual aching of theuterus. Just as ovaries, the seat of chronic pain, havebeen thought on clinical grounds to be inflamed, so it hasbeen thought that a uterus the seat of chronic pain must
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Fig. 15.—Virgin Uterus, JEt. 22. (After Sappep.)a, Anterior aspect. b, Median section. c, Transverse section. a. 1, Body of uterus; 2, 2, its superior angles ; 3, neck ; 4, isthmus; 5, vaginal portion ofneck ; ti, os externum, small and circular ; 7, vagina. b. 1, Profile of anterior surface of uterus ; 2, vesico-uterine cul-de-sac of peritoneum ; 3, 3,profile of posterior surface ; 4, body of uterus ; 5, neck ; 6, isthmus ; 7, cavity of body ; 8, cavityof neck ; 9, os internum ; 10, anterior lip of os tincse ; 11, its posterior lip ; 12, 12, vagina. c. 1, Cavity of body ; 2, its left border ; 3, its upper border ; 4, 4, its lateral infundibuliformangles ; 5, os internum ; (5, cavity ot neck ; 7, arbor vitse of posterior wall; 8, os externum ;9, vagina. be inflamed; and the condition has been called chronicmetritis. Such aching uteri are generally large, becauseinvolution after childbirth has been incomplete. An accountof this disease therefore comprises three things : (1) The invol

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