RT Journal
A1 GOELET AH
T1 TReatment of endometritis by drainage and irrigation.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD September 16
VO XXXIII
IS 12
SP 703
OP 705
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450640015002c
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450640015002c
AB It is too often the custom to regard every discharge from the uterus as evidence of endometritis and to submit the endometrium to vigorous treatment either by caustic or astringent applications or curettage or both. This is unscientific and an error both in diagnosis and treatment. Even when the diagnosis of endometritis is correct, such measures, as they are usually applied, are not effectual, and they submit the patient to needless risk and the uterus to much unnecessary violence. If every case so maltreated was actually an endometritis, there would still be no justification for the vigorous and even harsh measures sometimes blindly employed against it. I believe I am not far wrong when I say that if a cure results after such treatment it is not because of it, but in spite of it.If the case is one of simple hyperemia of the endometrium,