The generative system and its functions in health and disease / by James George Beaney.

  • Beaney, James George, 1828-1891.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The generative system and its functions in health and disease / by James George Beaney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Chapter XL Difficulties Connected with the Determination of Pregnancy—External Phenomena not always to be Relied on—Case of Lady Flora Hastings— Extraordinary Conduct of Sir James Clark—Frequency of Errors of this Kind—Uterine Diseases Frequently Mistaken for Pregnancy—Polypus in the Womb—Ordinary Signs of Pregnancy—The Symptoms not always to be Depended on—Menstruation during Gestation—Enlargement of the Breasts—Quickening—Mode of External Examination—Enlarge- ment of the Abdomen—Examination per Vaginam—Kiestein in the Urine—Persistency of Denial amongst Women—Cases in Point—Sup- posed Pregnancy—Mistakes of Specialists—Case of Unsuspected Preg- nancy ........ 368 Chapter XII. Unnatural Feeling in Women—Its Extraordinary Phenomena—Unnatural Sexual Passion — Hatred of Normal Physical Congress — Duchatelet's Description—Frequency of Unnatural Feelings amongst Prostitutes— Similar Practices amongst Men—Treatment of Unnatural Vices 387 Chapter XIII. Stricture of the Urethra—Stricture Embitters Whole Existence—Bad Treatment of Gonorrhoea a Frequent Cause of Stricture—Nature cannot Cure Herself—Surgery, Skilfully Applied, Patient's Only Hope- Treatment should be Commenced Early—Dangers Attending Unskilful Treatment—Patient's Painful History of His Case—Physical Suffering Portrayed— Longing, and Yet Afraid to Die—Physical Character of Urine in Stricture—Use of Catheter requiring Great Skill—Grave Con- sequences of False Passages—Various Kinds of Instruments Employed by Different Surgeons—Richardson's Dilators Undoubtedly the Best — Definition of Stricture—Its Division into Orificial, Penile, and Subpubic —Natural Calibre of Urethra must be Restored to Cure—Methods of Treatment Recommended—Rapid Dilatation the Proper Remedy—Sir Henry Thompson's Dilator—External Urethrotomy—Cases requiring It—Symptoms of Stricture—Causes of Stricture—Consequences of— Author's Treatment of—Importance of Retaining Catheter for Two Days —Practical Illustrations of Treatment by Rapid Dilatation and External Division—Speedy Recovery of the Patients - - - 392 Clinical Lecture on Stricture of the Urethra - - - 411