On the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases of the cervix uteri : and on the use of potassa fusa or potassa cum calce in their treatment / by J. Henry Bennet.

  • Bennet, James Henry, 1816-1891.
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[1851]
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Credit: On the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases of the cervix uteri : and on the use of potassa fusa or potassa cum calce in their treatment / by J. Henry Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fluence of whicli, indurated and hypertrophied tissues melt and are resolved, and morbid surfaces become healthy and heal. I was induced, some years ago, empirically to apply, Avith great caution, the smallest sized potassa cum calce cylinders to the cervical canal, in intractable inflammation, as a last resource ; and with great success. This success I now attribute to the fact of its reaching, by its more powerful action, the inflamed mucous follicles which lie be- tween the radiations of the arbor vitse, and are thus subtracted from the influence of milder agents. Potassa fusa was first introduced as a remedy in these forms of uterine inflammation by M. Gendrin of Paris, but had not been adopted by the profession when I left that city, nine years ago; although, I be- lieve, it has since been more favourably received. I can myself claim the merit of having introduced it into practice in this countiy, and of having simplified its use as above mentioned, I am continually using it with proper precaution, avoiding scrupulously the acute or sub- acute stages of disease, and never meet with any accident. I may say the same, as far as I am aware, of the numerous practitioners who have adopted it, throughout the country, on my recommendation, I must, however, caution those who would use it inside the os, to apply it veiy gently, and to guard against the too great closing of the cervical orifice, as the surface touched heals. For want of these precautions, in several cases treated in the country, in which I have been consulted, the os uteri has been all but closed. The dilatation of the contracted os is always easily accomplished when this is the case, by means of graduated bougies; but each contraction had better be prevented by proper judgment and care in the first treatment of the jDatient, 0, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, April 1851. Kichards, Printer, 37, Great Queen Street.