Transactions of the Session of the American Institute of Hom Opathy Volume 37 (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. 1884 Excerpt: ...its normal axis latterally, anteriorily or posteriority, and from the cervical canal a thick mucous plug will often (not always) be found to hang." It will thus appear that while Dr. Thomas recognizes leucorrhoea as a frequent attendant upon supposed ovarian inflammation, he does not claim that it is uniformly present, nor does he give any rational explanation for its existence when present, nor does he speak of it at all in connection with simple ovarian irritation. As still further evidence of its being an unsolved problem to him, I will quote yet further, viz.: "The day will probably come when treatment for it (ovaritis) will be satisfactory and efficient, but it has not yet done so by any means; recoveries have, in my experience, but little connection with treatment." "A dogmatic treatise upon ovaritis in the non-puerperal woman is, in the present state of science, impossible." Indeed he claims that acute ovaritis "is, except as a complication of pelvic peritonitis or cellulitis, quite rare in the non-puerperal woman." Others, as Madame Boivin, Drs. West and Fordyce Barker going so far as almost, if not quite, denying its existence in toto except as a complication of other intra-pelvic inflammations. Thomas does not speak of "ovarian irritation" at all. But he quotes Aran assaying: "I leave out of consideration all the fantastic descriptions of ovaritis which have been constructed in the library of physicians, who are more remarkable for brilliancy of imagination, than knowledge of the disease." Bennet says, "A large proportion of the cases in which the symptoms attributed to sub-acute and chronic ovaritis are of other diseases, in which the ovary is merely sympathetically irritated. Merely the...