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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 33 of 653is not generally very violent ; the pulse is generally small andhard. The stomach sympathizes most readily in this disease ; lossof appetite, coated tongue, nausea, retching and vomiting are vercommon. The bowels are constipated, the passage of the faeces isattended with tenesmus, urination is impeded and sometimes quiteimpossible. K the disease breaks out during the menses, they ceasimmediately and in their place a discharge sets in as in acute caof the uterus. K the menstrual period happens within the courseof the disease, the menses either remain suspended, or else the fof blood is more copious, sometimes even amounting to an actualhemorrhage. In the further course of the disease the dischargefrom the uterus is apt to become purulent, and if, which is a raroccurrence, abscesses form within the substance of the uterus, clpus is discharged. The disease runs an acute course of about a fonight, when, if no particular complications exist, convalescenceplace; which, however, is frequently incomplete, inasmuch as eithleucorrhoea or swelling of the uterus is apt to remain behind.Among the most important complications we number an inflammation of the peritonaeum which is apt to occur and by which thecourse of the disease is very much protracted and the metritis itself is very much aggravated. In such a case the inflammation assumes the form of diffuse peritonitis, with a very dubious prognoIn a case of this kind, the patient being a robust young woman, npregnant and the attack having occurred between the menstrualperiods, a copious discharge of thin pus from the vagina took plaabout the tenth day, so that it was scarcely possible to keep a scient supply of clean cloths under her. This was of course followby extreme weakness owing to which her recovery was very muchMetritis, Inflammation of the Womb. 29delayed. Previous to this discharge nothing of any sort hadpassed her.Metritis of pregnant females can scarcely ever be recognized withperfect certainty unless the enveloping membrane of the uterus anthe fieritonffium generally become involved. It may be supposed texist if febrile motions, vomiting or retching, meteorism, painfuness of the gravid uterus whether touched or not, set in. Duringthe first months the inflammation extends over the whole organ ;afterwards it becomes localized, and the painful sensitiveness iswise more circumscribed and confined to a definite locality. It ionly exceptionally, that the course of pregnancy is aflfected unfably by the inflammation, and if the latter is vary intense. If mtritis occurs during the period of parturition, labor becomes unuually painful ; and, if abscesses should form, rupture of the utemay easily take place. After confinement metritis generally takesthe form of puerperal metritis, of which we shall treat in the nechapter.Chronic metritis is upon the whole a somewhat obscure condition.It generally remains as a consequence of acute metritis, but maylikewise develop itself spontaneously under the operation of thevarious causes that may give rise to chronic catarrh of the uteru"We discover a more or less considerable general or total swellinof the uterus; enlargement, interstitial distention, hardness andulceration of the vaginal j)ortion, obstinate leucorrhoea, The pahttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt