The use of nitric acid in the treatment of uterine disease / Lombe Atthill.

  • Atthill, Lombe, 1827-1910.
Date:
[1873?]
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Credit: The use of nitric acid in the treatment of uterine disease / Lombe Atthill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE USE OF NITRIC ACID IN THE TREATMENT OF UTERINE DISEASE. BY LOMBE ATTHILL, M.D. Fellow and Examiner in Midwifery, King and Queen’s College of Physicians ; Obstetric Physician to the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin; Vice-President of the Dublin Obstetrical Society. Most British gynecologists are now convinced of the advan¬ tages to be derived from the application of remedies made directly to the inner surface of the uterus, when the mucous membrane lining the cavity of that organ is in a diseased condition. Much uncertainty, however, yet prevails— first, as to the cases requiring intra-uterine medication ; secondly, as to the best mode of making these applications ; and thirdly, as to the agents capable of producing the most satisfactory results. These important questions can only be solved by careful observation, and by as carefully recording the facts observed. It may, I think, be considered as certain that no single method and no single agent can be satisfactory in all cases. It is therefore to be hoped that, disabusing their minds of preconceived ideas or prejudices, observers will from time to time publish particulars of the cases in which intra-uterine medication has been practised by them, of the means employed, and of the results obtained. In the present paper I propose briefly to give the par¬ ticulars of a few cases in which I have employed one agent— namely, nitric acid, hoping on a future occasion to refer to others, the value of which I am at the present time engaged in testing.