A Text-book of Diseases of Women
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Excerpt from the Preface--'I have written this book for the medical student. I have attempted to present the best teaching of modern gynecology, untrammelled by antiquated theories or methods of treatment. I have, in most instances, recommended but one plan of treatment for each disease, hoping in this way to avoid confusing the student or the physician who consults the book for practical guidance. I have, as a rule, omitted all facts of anatomy, physiology, and pathology which may be found in the general text-books upon these subjects. Such facts have been mentioned in detail only when it see...
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- A TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF WOMEN BY CHARLES B. PENROSE, M.D., Ph.D. Formerly Professor of Gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania; Surgeon to the Gynecean Hospital, Philadelphia With 225 Illustrations SIXTH EDITION, REVISED PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY 1908
- PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- A TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF WOMEN.
- CHAPTER I.
- THE GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES OF WOMEN.
- CHAPTER II.
- METHODS OF EXAMINATION.
- CHAPTER III.
- DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALS.
- CHAPTER IV.
- DISEASES OF THE VAGINA.
- CHAPTER V.
- ANATOMY AND MECHANISM OF THE PERINEUM.
- CHAPTER VI.
- INJURIES TO THE PERINEUM.
- CHAPTER VII.
- RESULTS OF LACERATION OF THE PERINEUM.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE POSITION OF THE UTERUS AND THE MECHANISM OF ITS SUPPORT.
- CHAPTER IX.
- PROLAPSE OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER X.
- ANTEFLEXION OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XI.
- RETROFLEXION AND RETROVERSION OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XII.
- LACERATION OF THE CERVIX UTERI.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- INFLAMMATION OF THE CERVICAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE (CERVICAL CATARRH).
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CONGENITAL EROSION AND SPLIT OF THE CERVIX.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CERVICAL POLYPI; HYPERTROPHIC ELONGATION OF THE CERVIX; CHANCRE OF THE CERVIX; TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CERVIX.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- CANCER OF THE CERVIX UTERI.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- DISEASES OF THE BODY OF THE UTERUS.
- ACUTE CORPOREAL ENDOMETRITIS.
- CHRONIC CORPOREAL ENDOMETRITIS.
- EXFOLIATIVE ENDOMETRITIS, OR MEMBRANOUS DYSMENORRHEA.
- SENILE ENDOMETRITIS.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- SUBINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS; SUPERINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS.
- SUBINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS.
- SUPERINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- CANCER AND SARCOMA OF THE UTERUS.
- CANCER OF THE BODY OF THE UTERUS.
- SARCOMA OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XX.
- FIBROID TUMORS OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- HEMATOMETRA; HYDROMETRA; PYOMETRA.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- TUBERCULOSIS OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- INVERSION OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- DISEASES OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES.
- INFLAMMATION OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES, OR SALPINGITIS.
- SUPPURATION OF THE PELVIC CELLULAR TISSUE.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- DISEASES OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES (Continued).
- TUBERCULOSIS.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- TUBAL PREGNANCY.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- DISEASES OF THE OVARIES.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- DISEASES OF THE OVARIES (Continued).
- HERNIA OF THE OVARY.
- PROLAPSE OF THE OVARY.
- INFLAMMATION OF THE OVARY; OÖPHORITIS OR OVARITIS.
- APOPLEXY OF THE OVARY.
- OVARIAN HYDROCELE.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- CYSTIC TUMORS OF THE OVARY.
- OÖPHORITIC CYSTS.
- PAROÖPHORITIC CYSTS, OR PAPILLOMATOUS OVARIAN CYSTS.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- CYSTS OF THE PAROVARIUM.
- COMPARISON OF OÖPHORITIC, PAROÖPHORITIC, AND PAROVARIAN CYSTS.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- NATURAL HISTORY AND TREATMENT OF OVARIAN CYSTS.
- SECONDARY CHANGES OR ACCIDENTS OF OVARIAN CYSTS.
- THE CLINICAL HISTORY OF OVARIAN CYSTS.
- TREATMENT OF OVARIAN CYSTS.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- SOLID TUMORS OF THE OVARY.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- MALFORMATIONS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- THE MENOPAUSE.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.
- GENITAL FISTULÆ.
- CHAPTER XXXVII.
- DISEASES OF THE URETHRA AND BLADDER.
- DISEASES OF THE URETHRA.
- URETHRAL NEOPLASMS.
- DISEASES OF THE BLADDER.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.
- GONORRHEA IN WOMEN.
- CHAPTER XXXIX.
- THE TECHNIQUE OF GYNECOLOGICAL OPERATIONS.
- CHAPTER XL.
- THE TECHNIQUE OF GYNECOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (Continued).
- CHAPTER XLI.
- TREATMENT AFTER CELIOTOMY.
- CHAPTER XLII.
- THE SPECIAL TECHNIQUE OF OPERATIONS UPON THE UTERUS AND THE UTERINE APPENDAGES.
- OPERATION FOR REMOVAL OF THE UTERUS.
- CHAPTER XLIII.
- THE EFFECT OF THE REMOVAL OF THE UTERINE APPENDAGES.
- INDEX.
- FOOTNOTES:
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