A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment (1880) (14590315170)

Hermaphrodite: Uterus absent, vagina small, clitoris enlarged
Identifier: treatiseonmedica00eato (find matches)
Title: A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Eaton, Morton Monroe. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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allowingnature to have her way is usually the best practice, aided byremedies, diet, and warm vaginal and rectal injections; oftenthe effusion is absorbed without producing serious injury:whereas, too much interference might cause an increase ofinflammation, which might result fatally. When suppurationtakes place (which is characterized by rigors and a feeling 46 722 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. of fluctuation supervening on hardness of the tumor), it issometimes advisable to evacuate the pus by a free incisionof the bistoury through the vaginal wall, the abscess beingfor some reason more liable to point into the rectum andleave an internal fistula, or cause pyaemia through theabsorption of pus into the general circulation. The treatment of an abscess caused by hematocele doesnot differ from one caused by cellulitis. The hardness causedby coagulated blood, called Thrombus, is more likely to resultin abscess than where the effused blood does not coagulate,and remains fluid. Plate XXIX.
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HERMAPHRODITE, OR NONENTITY.UTERUS ABSENT. VAGINA SMALL. CLITORIS ENLARGED. HYPERTROPHY OF THE CLITORIS. 723 CHAPTER LXV. ELEPHANTIASIS OR HYPERTROPHY OF THE CLITORIS, LABIAMAJOR A, AND LABIA MINORA, HERMAPHRODITES, NONEN-TITIES, TUMORS OF THE LABIA, ETC. Elephantiasis or hypertrophy of the clitoris is quite rare.(See Plate No. XXIX.) I hare seen but three cases in anexperience in hospital and private practice of over twentyyears. It occurs as a congenital deformity, and as an ac-quired affection from diseased action. Occurring as a congenital affection, in connection withpartial atresia of the vagina or abnormal development of theuterus, ovaries or vagina, has given rise to the term hermaph-rodite, signifying the union of both sexual organs in oneperson, as in these cases the labia are ordinarily developed.The term nonentity, we think, would be more appropriate, asthey certainly can not be considered either male or female. ■the enlarged clitoris in these cases is capable of little