Intra-uterine medication / by Robert Bell, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., etc. (Physician to the Glasgow Hospital for Diseases Peculiar to Women).

  • Bell, Robert, 1845-1926
Date:
1888
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Credit: Intra-uterine medication / by Robert Bell, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., etc. (Physician to the Glasgow Hospital for Diseases Peculiar to Women). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    different excample, and will do so as briefly as possible, for it would be a waste of time to describe the sub- jective symptoms with which we are all so familiar. • Mrs. T., 33, married six years, two children, youngest four years of age. Patient has not felt well since last confinement, her health gradually going down since, although she has gained very much in weight. During the past two years she has suffered very much from metrorrhagia, which at all times continued for three out of the four weeks, and when it did cease a purulent discharge took its place. Vaginal examination disclosed an anteverted, enlarged, and flaccid uterus. The uterus was curetted and under- went two months of intra-uterine and tampon treat- ment, but in this case the application was made bi-weekly. She was also put upon 15-gTain doses of the muriate of calcium, three times daily after food because of her strumous appearance. She called upon me three months after the treatment was commenced and one month after it had been-discontinued to report herself, when she expressed herself as feeling quite well, and informed me that her menses the last time had continued only five days. I need not tell you, gentlemen, that it would be too much to expect every case of this disease to yield so readily to treat- ment as those I have detailed, but even if we get equally satisfactory results in six months we have reason to be satisfied, and in the very large majority