Excerpt from On Some Symptoms Which Simulate Disease of the Pelvic Organs in Women: And Their Treatment by Allo-Piesto-Myo-Kinetics (Massage) And by an Auto-Piesto-Myo-Kinetics (Self-Movements of Muscles Under Pressure) If he becomes a gynaecologist in this way, he is too apt to look at all a woman's ailments through her generative system; and I am quite sure that that is most disastrous both for him and, far more, for the woman whom he has to treat. Speaking generally, a woman does not become ill because her uterus and generative apparatus is out of order, but her uterus is out of order because she is ill. He who takes the former v1ew of his case, tinkers at it with pessaries and supports, and talks of slight displacements which he is going to rectify by mechanical means. But the man who views the local ailment as the local expres sion or manifestation of a general condition is compelled, while not discarding the help of local remedies, to have recourse to general methods of treatment, which are slow, no doubt, but, if slow, are (when well managed) very sure, and are really the only ones on which reliance is to be placed. The one man, in short, aims at curing the woman by making her uterus right; the other knows the uterus will become right if hexcan cure the woman. 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.