Medico-Chirurgical Transactions Volume 47 (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. 1864 Excerpt: ...of the discomforts aud ailments, such as vicarious haemorrhage, which so frequently attend the absence of the catamenia. The subject of M. Renauldin's case had begun about the age of puberty to suffer from headache, palpitation, nausea, and occasional vomiting of black matters; and it was on account of these ailments that she had sought medical aid, and had 1-London Medical Gazette, ' vol. iii, p. 732. s Memoires de la Societe Medicale d'Emulation, ' vol. ii, pp. 270-6. Paris, 1798. even undergone a fruitless surgical operation. M. Cailliot says of his patient that the breasts were but slightly developed, resembling in size those of a girl below marriageable age. In M. RenauldhVs patient the mammae were entirely undeveloped, not exceeding in size those of an ordinary man. In the absence of any conclusive examination of the internal sexual organs, the two principal points of interest presented by the above case are the abnormal state of the mammae and of the heart. Both are the subjects of congenital imperfection, the result probably of arrested development. Regarding the precise nature of the cardiac imperfection, I feel unable to offer any positive opinion; but it seems almost certain, from the result of Dr. Hall Davis's examination, and from the light thrown on the case by the post-mortem examinations quoted above, that the defective development of the mammae is associated with a rudimentary and imperfect formation of the ovaries. PATHOLOGICAL RESEARCHES DISEASES OE THE EAR. (SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEVENTH SEBIES.) SEBACEOUS TUMOURS IN THE EXTERNAL AUDITORY MEATUS. BY JOSEPH TOYNBEE, F.E.S., E.E.C.S., AUBAL SUEGEON TO ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL J LECTUBEB ON AUBAL SUBGEBY AT ST. MABY'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL; CONSULTING AUBAL SUBGEON TO THE ASYLUM POB THE DEAP AND DUM.