Practical gynecology; a comprehensive text-book for students and physicians

Front matter

CopyrightN^,

-BI^

COPYRIGHT DEPOSm

Preface To Fourth Edition

In the preparation of the fourth edition of this book I have so rearranged it as to secure what experience in teaching has demonstrated to be a more progressive order. It opens with special anatomy, which is followed in order by physiology; etiology; diagnosis; therapeutics, general and special; functional disorders; malformations; traumatisms; inflammations; displacements; ectopic gestation and genital tumors.

While much that has become obsolete is omitted, enough is retained to give the careful student of gynecology an idea of what has been done and of the progress of the science. In the consideration of the special disorders of the various pelvic structures especial effort is made to emphasize the influence of constitutional conditions and to impress the importance of the treatment from the medical side.

Thus the acute and chronic inflammations of the uterus and of the peritoneum are largely rewritten. Vaccine- and serotherapy are carefully considered. Early recognition, and prompt as well as radical treatment of cancer of the uterus are advocated. I take this opportunity to express my appreciation of the assistance of Dr. P. Brooke Bland in rewriting the microscopic diagnosis and the methods of blood-study; of the assistance of Miss Edith Ramsay in the preparation of the manuscript; of the services of Miss S. L. Clark in preparation of new sketches; and to the publishers for their valuable suggestions and uniform courtesy.

E. E. Montgomery.

Vil

Preface To First Edition

I will offer no apology for presenting an additional text-book upon gynecology.

This work has been under consideration for the last fifteen years, and much of it has been several times rewritten. An effort has been made to make it a comprehensive work upon the subject, giving the experience and methods of the most careful men, while my own experience has been utilized to indicate that which I have found most useful and worthy of acceptance.

Each general subject is considered with reference to its influence upon the entire genital tract, and the work is divided into sections rather than chapters. This course, although a departure from the ordinary text-book arrangement, is that which experience has demonstrated to be most effective in impressing the subject upon the student, and would seem to me preferable to him who uses the book to refresh his knowledge upon any particular subject. The illustrations are arranged solely with the purpose of rendering clear the text and to promote the work of diagnosis and treatment. For their excellence and character I am greatly indebted to the generosity of the publishers and to the skill and patience of their artists, Messrs. Shannon and Von du Lancken. To the kindly oversight of Dr. Robert L. Dickinson is due much of the exactness of the drawings. Acknowledgment is due Miss Eleanor A. Cantner for her ability in the preparation of preliminary sketches and of the index.

Should it be the means of lightening the work of the student, of making more clear the pathway of the busy practitioner, and, most of all, of benefiting suffering women through improved methods of diagnosis and treatment, I shall feel well repaid for the many days and nights of labor which it has cost.

The Author.

IX