Excerpt from The Principles and Practice of Gynecology: For Students and Practitioners In accordance with the plan of the book as set forth in the prefaces to former editions I have arranged the subjects in pathological and etiological sequence. For example, infections and inflammations are brought together, so that vulvovaginitis, metritis, salpingitis, ovaritis, and peritonitis may be studied in the combined forms which frequently they assume. In like manner, tumors are treated in another part, traumatisms in another, and displacements in another. Under this plan the student will have constantly before him the physiological and pathological unity of the reproductive system; on the other hand, if he considered all the diseases of each organ in a chapter itself, he would find tumors, traumatisms, displacements, and other anomalies thrown in between the infections of that organ and causal or resultant infections in other parts of the pelvis, and thus might lose sight of the correlation of like morbid processes to one another. 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.