PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
A TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF WOMEN.
CHAPTER I. THE GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES OF WOMEN.
CHAPTER II. METHODS OF EXAMINATION.
CHAPTER III. DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALS.
CHAPTER IV. DISEASES OF THE VAGINA.
CHAPTER V. ANATOMY AND MECHANISM OF THE PERINEUM.
CHAPTER VI. INJURIES TO THE PERINEUM.
CHAPTER VII. RESULTS OF LACERATION OF THE PERINEUM.
CHAPTER VIII. THE POSITION OF THE UTERUS AND THE MECHANISM OF ITS SUPPORT.
CHAPTER IX. PROLAPSE OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER X. ANTEFLEXION OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER XI. RETROFLEXION AND RETROVERSION OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER XII. LACERATION OF THE CERVIX UTERI.
CHAPTER XIII. INFLAMMATION OF THE CERVICAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE (CERVICAL CATARRH).
CHAPTER XIV. CONGENITAL EROSION AND SPLIT OF THE CERVIX.
CHAPTER XV. CERVICAL POLYPI; HYPERTROPHIC ELONGATION OF THE
CHAPTER XVI. CANCER OF THE CERVIX UTERI.
CHAPTER XVII. DISEASES OF THE BODY OF THE UTERUS. ACUTE CORPOREAL ENDOMETRITIS.
CHAPTER XVIII. SUBINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS; SUPERINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS. SUBINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER XIX. CANCER AND SARCOMA OF THE UTERUS. CANCER OF THE BODY OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER XX. FIBROID TUMORS OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER XXI. HEMATOMETRA; HYDROMETRA; PYOMETRA.
CHAPTER XXII. TUBERCULOSIS OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER XXIII. INVERSION OF THE UTERUS.
CHAPTER XXIV. DISEASES OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES.
CHAPTER XXV. DISEASES OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES (Continued). TUBERCULOSIS.
CHAPTER XXVI. TUBAL PREGNANCY.
CHAPTER XXVII. DISEASES OF THE OVARIES.
CHAPTER XXVIII. DISEASES OF THE OVARIES (Continued). HERNIA OF THE OVARY.
CHAPTER XXIX. CYSTIC TUMORS OF THE OVARY.
CHAPTER XXX. CYSTS OF THE PAROVARIUM.
CHAPTER XXXI. NATURAL HISTORY AND TREATMENT OF OVARIAN CYSTS.
CHAPTER XXXII. SOLID TUMORS OF THE OVARY.
CHAPTER XXXIII. MALFORMATIONS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS.
CHAPTER XXXIV. DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE MENOPAUSE.
CHAPTER XXXVI. GENITAL FISTULAE.
CHAPTER XXXVII. DISEASES OF THE URETHRA AND BLADDER.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. GONORRHEA IN WOMEN.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE TECHNIQUE OF GYNECOLOGICAL OPERATIONS.
CHAPTER XL. THE TECHNIQUE OF GYNECOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (Continued).
CHAPTER XLI. TREATMENT AFTER CELIOTOMY.
CHAPTER XLII. THE SPECIAL TECHNIQUE OF OPERATIONS UPON THE UTERUS AND THE UTERINE APPENDAGES.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE EFFECT OF THE REMOVAL OF THE UTERINE APPENDAGES.
INDEX.
FOOTNOTES:
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A TEXT-BOOK
OF
DISEASES OF WOMEN
BY
CHARLES B. PENROSE, M.D., Ph.D.
Formerly Professor of Gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania; Surgeon to the Gynecean Hospital, Philadelphia
With 225 Illustrations SIXTH EDITION, REVISED
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY
1908
Set up, electrotyped, printed, and copyrighted July, 1897. Revised, reprinted,
and recopyrighted May, 1898. Reprinted December, 1899. Revised,
reprinted, and recopyrighted December, 1900. Revised, reprinted,
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Revised, reprinted, and recopyrighted, June, 1904.
Reprinted August, 1905. Revised, reprinted,
and recopyrighted March, 1908.
Copyright, 1908, by W. B. Saunders Company.
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