Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...cases of trephining in his own practice, performed with a view to the cure of intracranial affection, due to disease and not to injury, in all of which the patient recovered from the effects of the operation withqut the occurrence of any serious symptoms. Although in most of these cases, particularly in those of idiopathic epilepsy, the ulterior results of the operative treatment do not present instances of complete and brilliant success, they are still encouraging, and certainly justify the attempts that are being nade to bring serious and very distressing affections of the ain within the range of surgical treatment.--Editorial in British Medical Journal. Vol. vn. SEPTEMBER, 1890. No. 7. (r)ommunicafion0. THE FEMALE URETHRA: A SOURCE OF TROUBLE OFTEN OVERLOOKED IN OUR GYNECOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. By K. P. MOORE, M. D., Macon, Georgia. Mrs. C., age about forty-eight, came to me from a neighboring town, some months ago, to be treated for some supposed uterine ailment. She had been married about twenty-five years, no children, and had not yet reached the menopause. For quite a number of years she had been a victim to much pain and suffering, and was now almost a complete physical and nervous wreck. Possessed of a fair proportion of this world's goods, she had sought relief in various and sundry ways and places. She had visited many noted springs and health resorts; had suffered many things of muny doctors; had taken, perhaps, largely more than her share of legitimate pills and powders, to say nothing of the limitless number of nostrums, blood purifiers, liver.Read beiofe Georgia Medical Association at Brunswick, May 1SEO. and kidney cures, uterine tonics, etc., ad nauseim. And yetf like the poor woman we read of in the old book, " neither could.