A Text-book of Diseases of Women

CHAPTER I.

THE GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES OF WOMEN.

Gynecology is the study of diseases peculiar to women. As woman possesses organs which man has not, and as the parts--physiological and social--that she plays in life differ from those played by man, we should expect to find her afflicted with a certain number of diseases, peculiar to her, which are dependent upon her anatomy...