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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    the 23atient improved very mucli in health, but when- ever treatment was discontinued she fell back again to her former condition of ill health, till on one occasion on applying to the canal, the applicator, when with- drawn, was minus the cotton wool with which it was loaded, and do what I could I failed to extract the cotton, so I was obliged to console myself with the fact that it was charged with an aseptic substance, and would do little or no harm, though it did not come away for a day or two. Within a few hours of the j)atient's return home, she was seized with violent uterine pains, and 1 was sent for, to find her suffering very acutely. In a short time, however, the small fibroid before mentioned had shot down into the vagina, and with it the cotton I had left in utero, when all pain ceased. I removed the polypus, and from that time the patient has not suffered from any uterine trouble, but on the contrary has borne two children. During the past three years I have treated many cases of fibroids by acting on the endometrium, and through it upon the uterine walls, and with the most gratifying results, which I must however leave to be the subject of a future communication to the Society. I'lUNTKD AT THE UNIVKIISITY I'RKSS, GLASGOW.