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Volume Iv.

DISEASES OF THE GENITO-URINARY AND CUTANEOUS SYSTEMS.--MEDICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, AND OTOLOGY.

PHILADELPHIA: LEA BROTHERS & CO. 1886.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by

LEA BROTHERS & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved.

WESTCOTT & THOMSON, Stereotypers and Electrotypers, Philada.

WILLIAM J. DORNAN, Printer, Philada.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

DISEASES OF THE GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM. PAGE DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS, INCLUDING THE PELVIS OF THE KIDNEYS. By ROBERT T. EDES, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

DISEASES OF THE PARENCHYMA OF THE KIDNEYS, AND PERINEPHRITIS. By FRANCIS DELAFIELD, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

HÆMATURIA AND HÆMOGLOBINURIA OR HÆMATINURIA. By JAMES TYSON, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

CHYLURIA. By JAMES TYSON, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

DISEASES OF THE MALE BLADDER. By EDWARD L. KEYES, A.M., M.D. . . . 123

SEMINAL INCONTINENCE. By SAMUEL W. GROSS, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . 137

DISPLACEMENTS OF THE UTERUS. By EDWARD C. DUDLEY, A.B., M.D. . . . 147

DISORDERS OF THE UTERINE FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING AMENORRHOEA, DYSMENORRHOEA, AND MENORRHAGIA. By J. C. REEVE, M.D. . . . . . . 182

INFLAMMATION OF THE PELVIC CELLULAR TISSUE AND PELVIC PERITONEUM. By B. F. BAER, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

PELVIC HÆMATOCELE. By T. GAILLARD THOMAS, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 239

FIBROUS TUMORS OF THE UTERUS. By WILLIAM H. BYFORD, M.D. . . . . . 245

SARCOMA OF THE UTERUS. By WILLIAM H. BYFORD, M.D. . . . . . . . . 271

CARCINOMA OR CANCER OF THE UTERUS. By WILLIAM H. BYFORD, M.D. . . 274

DISEASES OF THE OVARIES AND OVIDUCTS. By WILLIAM GOODELL, M.D. . . 282

DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS IN WOMEN. By ALEXANDER J. C. SKENE, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

DISEASES OF THE VAGINA AND VULVA. By EDWARD W. JENKS, M.D., LL.D. 367

DISORDERS OF PREGNANCY. By W. W. JAGGARD, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . 405

FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MENOPAUSE. By W. W. JAGGARD, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

DISEASES OF THE PARENCHYMA OF THE UTERUS; METRITIS AND ENDOMETRITIS, INCLUDING LEUCORRHOEA. By W. W. JAGGARD, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

ABORTION. By GEORGE J. ENGELMANN, M.D. (Berlin) . . . . . . . . . 467

DISEASES OF THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM.

MYALGIA. By JAMES C. WILSON, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY. By JAMES TYSON, A.M., M.D. . . . . . 540

PSEUDO-HYPERTROPHIC PARALYSIS. By MARY PUTNAM JACOBI, M.D. . . . . 557

DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

DISEASES OF THE SKIN. By LOUIS A. DUHRING, M.D., and HENRY W. STELWAGON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

MEDICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY.

MEDICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY. By WILLIAM F. NORRIS, A.M., M.D. . . . . . 737

MEDICAL OTOLOGY.

MEDICAL OTOLOGY. By GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . 807

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME IV.

BAER, B. F., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynæcology in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, and Dean of the Faculty; Obstetrician to Maternity Hospital; President of the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia, etc.

BYFORD, WILLIAM H., M.D., Professor of Gynæcology in the Rush Medical College, Chicago.

DELAFIELD, FRANCIS, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Practical Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

DUDLEY, EDWARD C., A.B., M.D., Professor of Gynæcology in the Chicago Medical College, Chicago.

DUHRING, LOUIS A., M.D., Professor of Skin Diseases in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

EDES, ROBERT T., M.D., Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine in Harvard University, Boston, Mass.

ENGELMANN, GEORGE J., M.D. (Berlin), Professor of Obstetrics and Gynæcology in the St. Louis Polyclinic and Post-Graduate School of Medicine.

GOODELL, WILLIAM, M.D., Professor of Clinical Gynæcology in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

GROSS, SAMUEL W., A.M., M.D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.

JACOBI, MARY PUTNAM, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Women's Medical College, New York, and Professor of Diseases of Children at the New York Post-Graduate School.

JAGGARD, W. W., A.M., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Chicago Medical College, Medical Department Northwestern University; Obstetrician to Mercy Hospital, Chicago.

JENKS, EDWARD W., M.D., LL.D., Detroit, Michigan, Formerly Professor of Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and Clinical Gynæcology in the Chicago Medical College, and in the Post-Graduate Medical School of New York.

KEYES, EDWARD L., A.M., M.D., Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery and Syphilis in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York; Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the Charity Hospital.

NORRIS, WILLIAM F., A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Pennsylvania, Surgeon to Wills Ophthalmic Hospital, Philadelphia.

REEVE, J. C., M.D., Dayton, Ohio, Formerly Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College of Ohio.

SKENE, ALEXANDER J. C., M.D., Professor of Gynæcology in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and in the Post-Graduate Medical School of New York.

STELWAGON, HENRY W., M.D., Physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary for Skin Diseases; Chief of the Skin Dispensary of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

STRAWBRIDGE, GEORGE, M.D., Clinical Professor of Otology in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

THOMAS, T. GAILLARD, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Women in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; Surgeon to the New York State Woman's Hospital.

TYSON, JAMES, A.M., M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Morbid Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, Philadelphia.

WILSON, JAMES C., A.M., M.D., Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, and to the Hospital of the Jefferson College; President of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIGURE PAGE 1. THE CLASSICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE PELVIC ORGANS . . . . . . 148

2. THE CORRECT REPRESENTATION OF THE PELVIC ORGANS . . . . . . . 149

3. FIRST DEGREE OF PROLAPSE OF THE POST-PARTUM UTERUS . . . . . . 155

4. SHOWING EXTREME DESCENT OF THE UTERUS AND OF THE PELVIC FLOOR, AND THE HERNIAL CHARACTER OF THE LESION . . . . . . . . . . 156

5. DESCENT OF THE VIRGIN UTERUS INTO THE VAGINAL CANAL, SHOWING THE REDUPLICATED VAGINAL WALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

6. DESCENT OF THE UTERUS, SHOWING EXCESSIVE CIRCULAR ENLARGEMENT OF THE LACERATED CERVIX, CONSEQUENT UPON REDUPLICATION OF THE VAGINAL WALLS AND OUT-ROLLING OF INTRACERVICAL TISSUES . 158

7. THE EMMET CURVES (PESSARY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

8. THE ALBERT SMITH CURVES (PESSARY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

9. THE FIRST SUTURE BEFORE TWISTING IN EMMET'S OPERATION IN PROCIDENTIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

10. FOLDS ON THE ANTERIOR VAGINAL WALL FORMED AFTER TWISTING THE FIRST SUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

11. EMMET'S OPERATION FOR PROCIDENTIA AND URETHROCELE COMPLETED . 163

12. DIAGRAM OF EMMET'S OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

13. THE SUTURES IN PLACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

14. THE VAGINAL SUTURES TWISTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

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