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Title: Observations on those diseases of females which are attended by discharges : illustrated by copper-plates of the diseases, &c.
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Clarke, Charles Mansfield, Sir, 1782-1857
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Female Vaginal Discharge
Publisher: Philadelphia : Carey and Lea
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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y and water, will form the best vehi-cles for the different preparations of opium; sometimes a mix-ture of confectio opiata and spiritus aetheris sulphunci composi-tus, given in peppermint-water, in small doses, at short intervals,will relieve, in an expeditious and certain manner, the vomiting,singultus, and eructations, more effectually than any other com-binations of medicines. The writer forbears to enter into speculative discussions, re-specting the employment of several medicines, which have beensuggested for the cure of carcinoma; and he does so, becausethe profession have not yet had sufficient experience of the ef-fect of such medicines; or, because he himself has not knownthem used with benefit. In thus concluding his work, the writer can conscientiouslyassert, that he has made no statements which, in his opinion, arenot founded in fact, and that he has withheld nothing whichmight in any way tend to the advantage of the practitioner, orto the comfort of the patient. THE END,
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En •, /IDn tv/., >, EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE I. This plate shows a portion of hydatids of the uterus. Thequantity voided by the patient would have filled a gallon mea-sure. The prepara.ion is suspended in the spirit by a portion oforganized coagulating lymph, from which the hydatids spr.ng,being connected with it by means of small filaments of the samesubstance. The cysts vary in size; some of them conta.n a fluid,whilst others have collapsed in consequence of its escape. 220 EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE II. In this plate are two figures of the cauliflower-excrescence ofthe uterus. Fig. 1. Conveys an exceedingly good idea of the disease,as met with in the living body, the surface beingstudded with a number of little granules heaped uponeach other, forming masses of an irregular shape.The lines drawn from letters A. and B. terminatein different parts of the mass. The letter A. in a por-tion which has a granulated appearance; the letterB. in a small flocc

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