Southern Practitioner - 1889 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In his consideration of bis subject, the diseases of women are divided into three classes: 1. Those occurring between birth and puberty. 2. Those developing betw... more »een puberty and the menopause. 3. Those which occur after this important change takes place in female lite. We fully concur with the author's statement in his preface, that "Each subject is briefly described, and histories of cases, typical and complicated, are given as illustrative of the disease or injury under consideration, together with the author's mode of treatment. The number of illustrative cases given, depending upon the importance of the subject and the ability to make it more plain by this method." He gives his own views and methods regarding practical matters, believing lhat while they may differ with the general literature of the day to some extent, they will be found reliable in practice, and be of interest to the specialist. We have not space to go into a thorough review of the various subjects so ably presented, and will merely mention cursorily and briefly his views on the subject of those abominations, limited we hope, to a great extent to the past, if not relegated to oblivion, y'clept, pessaries. He does not fully endorse Peaslee, nor he does he accord with so correct an observer as W. L. Atlee, whom he quotes as having said : " I have had no experience with pessaries, at least with their introduction, but I have had a very long experience with their removal." He admits "that if the harm done should be placed opposite the good accomplished by all the pessaries in use, the results would be about equally balanced." He further says in the same paragraph, "It follows, then, that as matters stand at this moment, it is a question whether the human race would be better or worse if all the pessaries w...« less