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
To summarize the result of my observations regarding the cardiac
disorders secondary to diseases of the female genital organs:
1. Tachycardial paroxysms in cases of amenorrhœa were premenstrual in
rhythm, the paroxysms occurred, that is to say, some days before the due
date of the suppressed flow.
2. In cases of dysmenorrhœa, I observed heart trouble with severe
dyspnœa and feelings of anxiety, also in some cases symptoms of cardiac
asthenia; these symptoms were perhaps dependent upon acute dilatation of
the heart. The heart trouble associated with profuse menorrhagia
exhibited similar characters.
3. Attacks of pseudo-angina pectoris occurred in women in whom local
treatment for disease of the genital organs had been carried out for a
long time, and in cases in which operative measures were in
contemplation.
4. Paroxysms of tachycardia and cardiac distress were observed in
connexion with displacements of the uterus, and especially in cases of
retroflexion; also in association with oöphoritis and with parametric
exudations.
5. Cases of degeneration of the myocardium, sometimes running a rapidly
fatal course, were found to be consecutive to tumors of the uterus and
its annexa, especially to myomata of the uterus.
_Nervous Diseases Secondary to Diseases of the Genital Organs._
In earlier chapters of this work we have frequently referred to the
reflex influence exercised upon the nervous system in general, alike by
the normal functions and the pathological states of the female genital
organs. We must now briefly explain the more intimate connection between
nervous diseases and diseases of the genital organs, the causal
dependence of local nervous disturbances and of general neuroses upon
diseases of the reproductive organs.
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