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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 32 of 653a visit to these or those springs, whereas a little common sensemight teach that the same results can be obtained with much lesstrouble and expense by pursuing a regular course of proper diet ageneral hygiene at home. It is not our object to single out and rcommend in this place certain springs that are really of use in taffection; all we have to say is, that salt-water bathing is somea sovereign remedy for the most obstinate uterine catarrh, agreeato the indications furnished by the physiological experiments instuted with common salt.Injections of water by means of a good vaginal syringe keep theparts clean and free from soreness and ulcerations ; otherwise thhave no curative effect. But we should not pedantically insist upcold water being used under all circumstances and by everybody;tepid water sometimes has a much more certain palliative effect,ft. Metritis.Inflammation of the Womb.This inflammation may involve the internal lining as well as thesubstance and the external serous coat of the uterus. If the mucous lining alone is invaded, we have the picture of an acute utecatarrh which, however, almost always accompanies both the otherforms, parenchymatous and peri-metritis.The common causes of metritis are, like those of acute catarrh,deleterious influences acting directly upon the uterus, more espeally excessive coition, obstetrical operations or foreign bodiescavity of the uterus; or the causes may be more general, such ascold, or violent emotions ; these influences affect the uterus somore readily at a period when the organ is in a state of congestifor instance at the time of the menses. If the menses suddenlycease at the commencement of inflammation, we have no right toconclude that this suppression is the cause instead of the consequence of the inflammation. Chronic metritis generally arises frothe acute form, or is occasioned by causes similar to those in wha chronic catarrh of the sexual mucous membrane originates.SyfnptomH aiid Course. The disease usually commenceswith a chill which is at once followed by pains in the diseased ogan. If the parenchyma is alone affected, the pains are not veryviolent, aching, boring, throbbing, stitching or lancing, they ar28 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.seated deep in the pelvis, are accompanied by a most painful presing downwards resembling feeble labor-pains; they are increased bpressing upon the abdomen, by very active respiratory movements,urging at stool, and erect posture, and they radiate to the smallthe back and thighs. If the serous covering is likewise involved,the pains become more acute, the sensitiveness to contact is greaand extends over a larger surface. The volume of the uterus notbeing sufficiently increased, it cannot be felt through the abdominteguments ; on exploration the uterus is found to be more sensitive, and the cervical portion is softer, more swollen and shortethan in the normal condition. The constitutional symptoms are ofdifferent degrees of intensity. Fever is never entirely absent, bhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt