Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees].

Rees, George, 1776?-1846.

Date:: [between 1800 and 1809?]

Credit: Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$0 ( f5 ) even proved to be an organ not at all neceffary to life, as it has frequently been removed, and the patient has furvived the deprivation*. No one* * The uterus is an organ which is not abfolutely necef- fary to life, fince many animals have been known to live \ , after it has been taken out. Dr. White’s 'Treatife on the Management of Lying-m-Women, p. 458* Sin vero putrefcat, exfcindendus eft uterus, auferendo e corpore mulieris, neque deterreamini ubi ncceffitas urget. Hieron. Mercur. de Morb. Muller. Mulieres, exciHb utero, fanas fupervixifTe teftatus eft Ni- colaus Florentinus. JEtiuSy lib. 16, cap. 76. Cum remeare in fuum locum uterus non poteft ita ut aliquando corrumpat, et nib abfcindatur totum corpus cor- * rumpatur abfcindi autem poiTe abfque vitas difpcndio docet RoulTet. de partu Cadar. Pauli Zacchai UPhueJl. Medico-legal, p. 778. J Thefe quotations ferve to (hew that’the ancients did not conlider the removal of the uterus incompatible with the future exigence of the woman. A more modern writer than$