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Title: A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Eaton, Morton Monroe. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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necessary, in three or four days,using always a very mild current of electricity. Mustard sinapisms to the small of the back and over thehypogastric region are often very efficient. In those casesthat are obstinate I would rely upon Puis. 3X or Macrotine3X every three hours, giving occasionally, for a day or two,China, Merc., or Ars., while wTe interrupt the Puis, or Mac.for that length of time. Cases caused by fright, I may say, always demandAconite, except in a few that show decided tendency totwitching of the muscles and restlessness, where we may findIgnatia, or Verat. alb., indicated. In case of imperforate hy-men, of course, we should proceed to make an incision, and 38 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. evacuate the menstrual blood that has accumulated in thevagina. This is a simple operation, and requires no specialremarks, except, perhaps, that we must remember to insertinto the opening we have made a wad of lint or cottonsmeared with vaseline, so as to prevent the reuniting of the
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Fig. No. 4.—Combination Battery. This is a combination of ii thirty-cell Galvanic Battery ami a No 3 Faradic Buttery. Theabove cut shows the method of putting the Battery in action by raising the cells. In application,either the slow or the rapid interrupter of the Farndic apparatus can, by simply moving a switch,be made to act as an Automatic Rheotome, for interrupting the Galvanic current. In certain in-stances this combination of the two Batteries in one case is of great advantage. incised hymen. The adhesions in the neck of the os uterimay sometimes be broken up with the uterine sound. Whenthis can not be done, we may insert into the neck of theuterus, through the os, if it is perceptible, or, if not, thenwhere it should be, a curved trocar, passing it in till we are AMENORRHEA. 39 sure we have reached the cavity of the body of the uterus,being careful not to go too far, when, upon withdrawing thestylet, we will generally have a flow of menstrual fluidthrough the canula. I would

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