Uterine diseases, with an appendix : containing an abstract of 180 cases of uterine diseases and their treatment, together with analytical tables of results, ages, symptoms, etc. : to which is added a clinical record of interesting cases, treated in the Manchester Homoeopathic Hospital / by Henry R. Madden.

  • Madden, Henry R. (Henry Ridewood)
Date:
[1852?]
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    in the remarks with which I opened up this subject, I referred to Professor Simpson as the individual to whose labours I would trace the extraordinary stimulus given to the study of this class of diseases in Britain, yet it will appear from the sequel that Dr. Henry Bennet, of London, has done more than any other practitioner in this country to advance our knowledge of that special form of disease which we are now considering. It will facilitate greatly our examination of this subject, if I, in the first place, give a short and rapid sketch of the views which have been progressively advanced regarding this disease during the last seven years. It was in 1843 that Professor Simpson first publicly introduced to the notice of the profession that instrument of diagnosis, which is now so well known by the name of the Uterine Sound ; and he, at the same time, in- formed his confreres that he had proved, by its means, that flexures of the uterus, in place of being conditions of rare occurrence, were among the most frequent accompaniments of uterine derangement. ISTay,more,he believed himself authorized in affirming, that these flexures were the cause of very much, if not of all, the distressing symptoms under which such patients suffered ; and yet further, he added, that these morbid condi- tions admitted of a mechanical cure, subsequent to which the whole symptoms yielded,and the patient was restored to health. To this statement we may trace the origin of what may not inaptly be termed the Mechanical School of uterine thera- peutics. This school has grown largely in numbers since the enunciation of the above related facts, and counts among its advocates many of the leading accoucheurs of this country. It has, however, been vigorously opposed by a large number of those who have made uterine pathology their chief study. Neith- er has this opposition been solely on the part of the conservative section of our profession—whose peculiar prerogative it seems to be, to exert all their efforts for the purpose of impeding pro- gress, or, as they would themselves say, of putting a wholesome curb on reckless innovation-but an equally energetic resistance to the adoption of these mechanical views has been made by