Identifier: atlasepitomeofgy00scha (find matches)
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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ETIOLOG Y. —DIA GNOSIS. 113 (arterial walls thickened, their lumen narrowed, muscularis partlyreplaced by connective tissue). Etiology.—(1) From puerperal subinvolution; (2)from the irritation of a chronic endometritis \ (3) fromthe penetration of infectious germs (especially gonococci) ;(4) from other hyperemic irritations, such as masturba-tion ; (5) from venous stasis in flexions, prolapse, or otherdisplacements accompanied by engorgements. (habituallyfull bladder, chronic constipation, or secondary stasis fromcirculatory disturbances in other organs); (6) rarely, froman acute metritis. Prognosis.—Although the disease does not cease at themenopause, but usually several years later, this time is thebest for effective treatment. The prognosis is more favor-able if the second stage appears early, as the disturbancesthen disappear. Symptoms.—A sensation of fullness (as if a heavybody were in the abdomen), pains in the side and sacralregion, discharge, menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea,

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