A TREATISE
ON ITS
ORIGIN, PATHOLOGY, TREATMENT, AND CURE.
BY
E. WHITNEY, M. D.,
AND
A. B. WHITNEY, A. M., M. D.,
LATE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
To Diseases of Women in the North-Western Dispensary, Visiting Physician, Etc.
New York:
M. W. DODD, PUBLISHER,
No. 506 Broadway.
1866.
[p.2a] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
A. B. WHITNEY, A. M., M. D.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.
E. O. JENKINS, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER,
20 NORTH WILLIAM ST., N. Y.
For those lucid Clinic illustrations and faithful instructions duringa three-years' course in the New York Medical University, particularlythe critical Pathological knowledge there inculcated, and consequentprofessional success, the youthful author is indebted.
Knowing they will agree with him, that his appreciation of their valuedservices, and his gratitude for the same, can be best acknowledgedin his attempt to benefit suffering humanity, he would here publiclyacknowledge the pleasure and benefit received from their instructionsduring his College course, and beg their acceptance of his sincerestgratitude and affection.
To these able Instructors this Volume is cordially Dedicated by theJunior Author.
A. B. WHITNEY, M. D.
The following pages are the result of investigations and the collectionof facts and arguments from a great variety of sources, originally madeand presented in aid of the discussions on the subject during the pastsix or eight months.
The most eminent and reliable authorities for nearly half a century,that is, from 1832 to 1865, including the late reports from India,have been carefully examined, and such late discoveries, facts, andarguments collected, as seemed to throw light upon the subject, or inany degree to indicate or direct to a general principle of practice.
The various experiments instituted for the cure of the disease havebeen carefully investigated, and the principle evolved explainedwhenever any advantage was derived from the same.
In all these we have diligently searched for the cause of the failureof "remedial agents," so uniformly admitted, and have endeavored topresent the results clearly and fully in the body of the work.
Our statistics are collected from reliable sources, [p.6a] are verybrief, and introduced in aid of the main object,—the establishment ofa general principle of practice.
The different modes of practice are from the most distinguished authorsof the different Schools of Medicine, and non-professional gentlemen;condensed and exhibited mainly in their own language, to show theirconformity or non-conformity to the Pathology of the disease.
In all we have kept constantly in view the pathology of the disease,whose "dictates" have governed us in the exhibition and establishmentof a general principle of rational practice, confirmed by observa