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Excerpt from The Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2: Including Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children; April, 1874, to March, 1875
K. C., aged twenty-three, came under my care three years ago, as an out-patient, at the Samaritan Free Hospital, suffering from severe dysmenorrhea, the result of a very acute ante flexion, together with other symptoms which frequently attend it, such as leucorrhea, dysuria, hypogastric pain, &c. All the means I could employ failed to give her relief. She had the cervix subsequently divided. This was attended with relief in her first recurring period, showing that the obstruction to the escape of the menstrual fluid, resulting from the flexion, was the cause of the dysmenorrhea. The healing process having been completed, and the canal having again become narrowed, the dysmenorrhea returned at the next period. An attempt was now made to introduce one of Dr. Meadows's glass stems; but the passage was found too small at the internal os, and it was again divided so as to admit the stern, which was then and there inserted. The result of its intro duction under these circumstances was a severe attack of metritis, which necessitated its removal, and the last state was worse than the first. In due time she returned as an out patient, all symptoms much aggravated: considerable con gestion, free uterine leucorrhea, greater dysuria, and more hypogastric distress. The flexion was as acute as ever, and the introduction of the sound caused intense pain. Repeated small local bleedings, chalybeate salines, and topical medica tion, chiefly lunar caustic, reduced the congestion and leucorrhea; but the dysmenorrhea continued unabated, and the periods were excessive both in quantity and duration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
