GynecologyW.B. Saunders Company, 1920 - 879 pages |
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abdominal wall abnormal abscess acute adhesions amenorrhea appearance atresia atrophy Bartholin's glands become bladder bleeding blood bowel broad ligament canal cancer catgut cause cavity cells cervix chronic clamp clinical condition connective tissue corpus luteum curet cystic cystocele cysts denuded diagnosis dilatation disease dissection dysmenorrhea endometrium epithelial epithelium especially external fascia fibroids fistula follicle frequently fundus genital glands gonorrhea gonorrheal growth gynecologic hemorrhage hernia hypertrophy hysterectomy important incision infection inflammation inflammatory internal secretion intestines kidney laceration layer menopause menorrhagia menstruation method microscopic mucosa mucous membrane muscles myoma normal occur opening ovarian ovary pain parametrium patient perineum peritoneal peritoneum physiologic posterior wall postoperative pregnancy procidentia prolapse radium rectal rectum removed result retroversion round ligament salpingitis seen sexual side sometimes sphincter sterility stitch stroma surface surgical sutures symptoms tion treatment tubal tube tumors ulceration ureter urethra urine usually uterine uterus vagina vaginal wall vulva women wound
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Page 139 - In respect to the auto-erotic and masturbatic sexual manifestations it may be asserted that the sexuality of the little girl has entirely a male character. Indeed, if one could give a more definite content to the terms 'masculine' and 'feminine,' one might advance the opinion that the libido is regularly and lawfully of a masculine nature,
Page 139 - is then to conduct the excitement to the adjacent female parts, and in this it acts like a chip of pine wood which is utilized to set fire to the harder wood. It often takes some time for this transference to be accomplished, during which the young wife remains anesthetic.
Page 145 - Through the appropriate excitement of erogenous zones as well as through other conditions under which sexual excitement originates a material which is universally distributed in the organism becomes disintegrated, the decomposing products of which supply a specific stimulus to the organs of reproduction or to the spinal center connected with them. Such a transformation of a toxic stimulus
Page 751 - edges of peritoneum on the surface of either broad ligament sufficiently distant from the middle point to take up all the slack in the base of the bladder, from side to side; these sutures are also left long. The three sutures are then
Page 178 - arises from the peritoneum at the left or inner side of the ascending colon, passing over the anterior aspect of the ascending colon in an upward slanting direction. It is attached to the parietal peritoneum at the right of the ascending colon. It may adhere to the anterior and lateral aspects of the colon
Page 136 - causes the individual to look upon his childhood as if it were a prehistoric time and conceals from him the beginning of his own sexual
Page 129 - found that out of 80 women arrested for opposition to the police, or for assault, only 9 were not at the menstrual period. Legrand du Saulle found that out of 56 women detected in theft at shops in Paris, 35 were menstruating. There is no doubt, whatever, that suicide in women is specially liable to take place at this period ; Krugelstein stated that in all
Page 181 - (3) in the ileocecal region, including the appendix; (4) in the region of the hepatic flexure and the first part of the transverse colon; (5) at the splenic flexure; (6) at the sigmoid loop; (7) in the rectum.
Page 83 - months. The posterior lobe element in the whole gland extract has an undoubted retarding influence upon the development of the sex glands, an effect very similar to that of ovarian extract upon the testes. This is shown by the relatively incomplete development of the testes, for example, after eight and a half months of
Page 7 - into three distinct parts: Part I deals with the physiology of the pelvic organs and with the relationship of gynecology to the general organism. The