Prolapse of the ovaries / by Paul F. Mundé.

  • Mundé, Paul F. (Paul Fortunatus), 1846-1902.
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[1880]
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Credit: Prolapse of the ovaries / by Paul F. Mundé. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Olshausen,1 in his recent excellent work on “ Diseases of the Ovary,” speaks of the possibility of palpating the nor¬ mal, not displaced ovaries in many cases per rectum, as first demonstrated by Chereau2 and Lowenhardt,3 and by con¬ joined manipulation, as first described by Freund,4 and cor¬ roborated by B. S. Schultze,5 and merely refers incidentally to the retro-displacement of one or both ovaries, which he, in common with other authors, looks upon as the result of the enlargement of the organ, assigning to the displace¬ ment itself a secondary and subordinate importance. I have been able to find but one other author, besides Barnes and Schroeder, who thinks that displacement of the ovary should be considered as a separate affection, occurring at times primarily and without preceding inflammation and enlargement, and to be treated accordingly ; and that au¬ thor is Rigby,6 who as long ago as 1850 approaches my subject when he speaks of dislocation of the ovary occur¬ ring in connection with retroversion, and expressing itself by intense neuralgia, violent pain during defecation, on moving the uterus with the finger, or pressing on the pro¬ lapsed organ through the rectum. As I have been unable to procure the number of the journal containing Rigby’s paper, I am unable to say how far he pursues the subject; my reference is taken from the works of Barnes, Beigel, and Olshausen. There is one other reference in journal literature to Pro¬ lapse of the Ovaries, and that is by Horatio R. Storer and L. F. Warner,7 but, as will be seen from the quotation, both speak only of cases where the prolapsed ovary is bound 1 Die Krcmkheiten der Ovarien j Part VI. of Billroth’s Handbuch der Frauenkrankheiien, Enke, Stuttgart, 1877. 2 Me?}ioire pour servir a Vetude des maladies des ovaires, Paris, 1844. 3 Diagnostisch-praktische Abhandlungen, Breslau, 1835. 4 Die Lage and Entwickelung der Beckenorgane, etc. Breslau, 1863. 5 “ Ueber Palpation normaler Eierstocke, etc.,” Jenaische Zeitschrift, i., 1864; Ibid., v. 6 Med. Times. 7 Journal of the Gynecological Society of Boston, vol. vi., May, 1872, p. 322 et seq.