RETROVERSIO-FLEXIO AND A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR THE REPOSITION OF THE UTERUS. _American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children_, February, 1887. UTERINE HEMORRHAGE AND LIGATION OF THE UTERINE VESSELS AS A THERAPEUTIC EXPEDIENT. _The New York Medical Record_, September, 1889. PHLEGMASIA ALBA DOLENS, OR MILK LEG; ITS PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT BY MEANS OF COLD WATER COMPRESSES AND ICE BAGS. _Pacific Medical Journal_, June, 1891. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE REASON WHY 15 CHAPTER II. DELUSIONS AS TO THE CURATIVE VALUE OF DRUGS 36 CHAPTER III. WHAT IS MIND CURE? 46 CHAPTER IV. GENERAL CAUSES OF UTERINE AND PELVIC DISEASES OF WOMEN 61 CHAPTER V. UNCLEANLINESS AS A CAUSE OF DISEASES IN WOMEN 76 CHAPTER VI. MARITAL EXCESSES AND PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION 87 CHAPTER VII. CRIMINAL ABORTION OR FETICIDE 101 CHAPTER VIII. ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE ORGANS 119 CHAPTER IX. MENSTRUATION AND MENSTRUAL DISORDERS 126 CHAPTER X. HISTOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION 145 CHAPTER XI. URETHRITIS AND NEURALGIA OF THE URETHRA 150 CHAPTER XII. INFLAMMATION, CATARRH, AND OTHER DISORDERS OF THE BLADDER 157 CHAPTER XIII. ACUTE AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE VAGINA 172 CHAPTER XIV. HYGIENIC MEASURES FOR CATARRHAL DISEASES OF THE FEMALE ORGANS 182 CHAPTER XV. METRITIS OR INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB 196 CHAPTER XVI. CHRONIC METRITIS OR CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB 203 CHAPTER XVII. ENDOMETRITIS OR CATARRHAL INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB 209 CHAPTER XVIII. THE NATURAL POSITION OF THE UTERUS AND HOW IT IS SUPPORTED 226 CHAPTER XIX. PROLAPSUS OR FALLING OF THE WOMB 231 CHAPTER XX. VERSIONS AND FLEXIONS OF THE WOMB 240 CHAPTER XXI. DISEASES OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES 258 CHAPTER XXII. DISEASES OF THE OVARIES 263 CHAPTER XXIII. PERIMETRITIS AND PELVIC PERITONITIS 275 CHAPTER XXIV. PELVIC CELLULITIS OR PARAMETRITIS 285 CHAPTER XXV. ELECTRICITY AS A REMEDY 294 CHAPTER XXVI. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY 305 CHAPTER XXVII. PRECAUTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS TO PREGNANT WOMEN 315 CHAPTER XXVIII.