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Title: Atlas and epitome of gynecology
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Schaeffer, Oskar. (from old catalog) Norris, Richard Cooper, 1863- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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fa ETIOLOGY. 141 death follows. Such pernicious extension is brought about by pro-gressive gangrene. If the necrosis is limited to the mucous membrane,it leads to casting-oS of the same in toto or in shreds—cystitis diph-theritica. Etiology.—The manner of origin differs in many re-spects from that in the male. The shortness of theurethra allows the infective material to penetrate into thebladder more easily, and yet the same peculiarity preventsthe urethritis from becoming chronic and going on to theformation of strictures. Concretions as large as a cherrymay pass the urethra, and still larger ones may be removedthrough it by operative means. The female has no pros-tate, the hypertrophy of which leads to stasis and decom-position of the urine. The puerperal process gives riseto a series of injurious influences, partly direct pressureeffects and partly inflammations. The latter are due eitherto direct extension from a parametritis or perimetritis, orto the perforation of an exudate

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