The sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspectsKisch, E. Heinrich (Enoch Heinrich)
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The sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspects
Kisch, E. Heinrich (Enoch Heinrich)
Gynecology; Menstruation; Women -- Diseases
_Mooren_ publishes the following cases, showing the influence of
amaurosis on the eye. A girl aged fourteen, with severe bilateral
pannous keratitis, was amenorrhoeic notwithstanding the existence of
well-marked menstrual molimina. Every four weeks, at the times when the
menstrual flow should have appeared, the corneal inflammation became
more severe; it became amenable to treatment for the first time a year
later, when the menstrual flow had become established. A peasant woman,
twenty-eight years of age, had never menstruated; the uterus was badly
developed; every month an intolerable heat and swelling of the face
recurred. Since the age of fifteen she had suffered from bilateral
interstitial keratitis, which had resisted all treatment, and had been
subject every four weeks to a recurrent exacerbation of this trouble,
lasting several days. The exhibition of powerful emmenagogues and the
use of Friedrichshall water brought about on a few occasions a scanty
discharge of blood. The comfort to the patient, relieved as if by
miracle from her pain and photophobia, was most remarkable.
Unfortunately, however, this state of comparative happiness lasted from
twelve to fourteen weeks only, after which, in spite of everything that
was tried, there was no further recurrence of menstruation, and the
condition of the eyes relapsed to what had existed for thirteen years.
In other cases described by _Mooren_ the amenorrhœa was complicated with
disseminated choroiditis and with posterior sclero-choroiditis.
_Beer_ reports a case of retrobulbar neuritis occurring with amenorrhœa,
consequent on infantile aplasia of the uterus. An interesting case was
recorded by _Dunn_ of a girl fifteen years of age, who had not yet begun
to menstruate, and who suffered from interstitial keratitis, with severe
photophobia. The ocular symptoms vanished with extreme rapidity as soon
as menstruation first appeared. _Napier_ observed complete blindness,
without discernible anatomical cause, associated with amenorrhœa of
sudden onset; the amaurosis disappeared as soon as menstruation was
re-established.
Striking and manifold are the disturbances of the nervous system which
may be caused by amenorrhœa, ranging from increased irritability,
hyperæsthesia of various nerve tracts, neuralgia, and the like, to
severe psychoses.
_Barnes_ reports a case of mental disturbance consequent upon amenorrhœa
in a woman twenty-seven years of age, who had begun to menstruate when
sixteen years old, and in whom the menses had been suppressed a year
earlier when she was informed of the sudden death of her father. From
that time a progressively increasing weakness of the mind was observed.
In a case recorded by _Macnaughton Jones_ the mental depression
consequent on amenorrhœa was so great that it led to an attempt at
suicide.
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