Excerpt from Leucorrhoea and Other Varieties of Gynaecological Catarrh: A Treatise on the Catarrhal Affections of the Genital Canal of Women; Their Medical and Surgical Treatment Many of the minor diseases peculiar to Women are associated with disorders of the mucous membrane that lines the genital canal, but we are rather inclined to diste gard these affections in favor of operative gynaecology, and for the development of sur gical technique. This class of disease, how ever, merits careful consideration, not only because of its primary importance, but on ac count of its significance as an etiological factor in more serious maladies. The commonly used term, leucorrhoea, sig nifies only one form of catarrh - a milky, White flow - and is, therefore, not compre hensive enough to embrace every variety of mucous discharge, While catarrh, used in the same sense as when applied to other mucous membranes, conveys a more accurate under standing of the pathology and clinical his tory of the gynaecic mucous membrane dis ease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.