Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

Robson, H. N.

Date:: 1911

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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Here is another case from the same book, and there is a certain amount of sameness in all these gonorrhoeal cases:— “ C. S., age thirty, was sent up to me by Dr T of Woolwich, and was admitted into the London Hospital under my care. She had been married twelve years, and had had three children, the last nine years before admission. The confinements were said to have been easy, but her symptoms date from ten years ago. Her chief complaint is of constant pain extending down the left leg. She had been in three other hospitals before com- ing to the London, and since the illness there had been a good deal of irregularity as regards men- struation. The uterus was found to be bound down by adhesions, and a swelling about the size of a walnut was felt to the left of it, which was also more or less fixed. The diagnosis was chronic inflammation of the uterine appendages, and these were ultimately removed. There was some dilata- tion of the left tube, and its outer end was closed and matted to the ovary in the usual way; there were also dense adhesions between the left appen- dages and the pelvic wall.” The above have been somewhat abbreviated. A case came under my notice where a young