Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females (1882) (14778868194)

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Title: Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cunningham, Henry S., M.D. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women Women
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind., G. F. Borst & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ary. Thus you see, in place of curing the diffi-culty it eventually increases it, and adds fuel to theflame. Better by far use tampons of cotton saturatedwith glycerine and tannic acid, which anybody can betaught to apply and remove as required. The bestmethod is to take as much absorbent cotton—kept byall druggists—as you can pass into the vagina, tie astring to it, and saturate it thoroughly with the fol-lowing : R Acid tannici gi. Acid carbolici £i. Glycerinae purse ^viii. M. Then saturate the cotton and pass up to the wombgently, pressing the womb back to the normal position.This must be done while lying on the back, and asoften as twice a day, morning and noon, and removedat night, to admit of thoroughly cleansing the vaginawith tepid water. LIFE AND HYGIENE. 265 There are many other forms of disease of the wonib,.all of which need special treatment according to theirseveral natures; most of them need surgical treatment,such as polypus and fibroid tumors, namely, sub-serous,
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Plate 5. Retroversion, A falling backwards and downwards of the fundus—body of the womb, caus-ing constipation by pressing upon the rectum, as shown in this diagram ;also pain in the back, and dyspepsia. (After Cunningham.) interstitial and sub-mucous. We have also ovariantumors, which are simply cystic degenerations of theovaries, containing a fluid. They result in enlarge-ment, the same as pregnancy, and can only be cured 266 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF by removing them; nothing but their removal bysurgery can give relief of a permanent nature. WOMEN. In conclusion, I will say, gentlewomen, that I haveendeavored to give you an outline of many diseases pe-culiar to your sex in as plain a manner as I possiblycould. There are, however, very many complicationsof the diseases I have enumerated that would only becalculated to confuse you were I to lecture upon them;and also incurable diseases, which could not possiblybenefit you, were you to investigate their various na-tures and symptoms