Henry Goode Wright

Uterine Disorders: Their Constitutional Influence and Treatment Henry Goode Wright

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ... absent; or in which it would be judicious to conduct the treatment with exclusive regard to neuralgia, congestion, or mechanical obstruction. The adverb Siig is an inseparable particle; it exactly expresses some untoward condition,' some accompanying difficulty concurrent with the menstrual period; and, unless this association be recognised in all its bearings, the diagnosis must be confused, and the treatment unsatisfactory. The same method hitherto adopted in considering menstruation and its disorders, appears applicable for the distinction of cases of dysmenorrhcea. Systemic Dysmenorrhea.--The various functional processes which specially minister to the continuance of life have a close co-ordination evidently intended to insure uniformity of action; all the structures or organs which assist in the carrying out of any one process being grouped together under one common control. The ganglionic system of nerves, the Praesidium of Nutrition, appears to be principally charged with this work of adjustment, and the distribution of its stations of communication, or ganglia, favours this view. Those processes which involve rapid and constant nutritive changes, or where absolute precision of action is essential to due fulfilment of function, are thus especially guided and governed; the nerve distribution corresponding to the vital importance of each. Digestion, circulation, aeration, elimination, reproduction, and the special senses, especially illustrate such endowments. The several ganglionic centres are in direct communication with sensory nerves, but under healthy conditions these convey no sense of the constant changes they control further than those test-conditions of normal communication, well illustrated by the recurring feeling of hunger and sense of sat...