Excerpt from A Treatise on Acute and Chronic Diseases of the Neck of the Uterus I shall not here discuss the moral differences between a diagnosis made by the Operation of touching, and a metroscopic one. Either Of them is bad enough, in itself considered; but as neither of them could be sup posed possible, except out of some direful necessity of the patient, and as the one is not essentially more revolt ing to the feelings of the sufferer than the other, it ap pears to me that the argument is as valid against the one as the other. NO one will deny that the delicacy of those relations that exist between medical people and their female patients, Opposes, in a variety Of cases, an insuperable barrier against any successful treatment whatever, for there are found individuals so fastidious as to prefer pain, disease, and even death itself, to any revelation concerning their disorders. Some women, who do not object to relate the history of their diseased sensations, compel us to rest satisfied with such barren histories as they themselves can give. 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.