Medical Sentinel Volume 3 book

Medical Sentinel Volume 3 book

Medical Sentinel Volume 3.cBooks Group

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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 238 pages
Published Date: 19 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236212535
Download Link: Medical Sentinel Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...cavity; but a procedure that has its limitations of usefulness and its dangers. I refer to uterine curettage. This operation is at present a fashionable one, and its field of usefulness is very much exaggerated and its dangers very much belittled by the profession at large. It is not of the uses of these intra-uterine procedures that I intend to speak, but of their dangers. Whenever the physician introduces an instrument within the womb, he exposes the patient to dangers on account of it. It is certain that the simple introduction of a sound within the womb may set up a violent inflammation of the womb, tubes, ovaries and pelvic tissues, with all their attendant dangers and evils. The danger of exciting pelvic inflammation is greatly increased where intra-uterine applications are made. These applications being usually strong, add their caustic effects to the injury made by the instrument by which they are applied, and so increase the attending risk. As curetting is a more potent procedure for good than applications to the endometrium, so are its attendant dangers greater. It creates extensive raw surfaces within the womb and correspondingly increases opportunities tor absorption of septic material, if there be any present. The danger from intra-uterine instrumentation is much greater if the patient has suffered from one or more attacks of pelvic inflammation. Particularly is this the case if this inflammation has left behind adhesions, indurations of the pevic tissues, or chronic disease of the erdometrium or tubes. To illustrate the risks involved in topical treatment of the endometria, I will cite some cases I have recently met with in practice. Case 1. Was called to see this woman at her home and obtained the following history: Age 30; married at 21; had...

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