A TREATISE ON THE 

 DISEASES OF WOMEN. 



BY ALEXANDER J. C. SKENE, M. D., 



PROFESSOR OP GYNAECOLOGY IN THE LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL, BROOKLYN, N. Y. ; FOR- 

 MERLY PROFESSOR OF GYNAECOLOGY IN THE NEW YORK POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL 

 SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL, ETC. 



Third Edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo, 991 pages. With 290 Fine 



Wood Engravings, and Nine Chromolithographs, prepared 



especially for this work. 



SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. 



THIS attractive work is the outcome and represents the experience of a long and 

 active professional life, the greater part of which has been spent in the treat- 

 ment of the diseases of women. It is especially adapted to meet the wants 

 of the general practitioner, by enabling him to recognize this class of diseases as 

 he meets them in every-day practice and to treat them successfully. 



The arrangement of subjects is such that they are discussed in their natural 

 order, and thus are more easily comprehended and remembered by the student. 



Methods of operation have been much simplified by the author in his practice, 

 and it has been his endeavor to so describe the operative procedures adopted by 

 him, even to their minutest details, as to make his treatise a practical guide to the 

 gynaecologist. 



While attention has been given to 'the surgical treatment of the diseases of 

 women, and many of the operations so simplified as to bring them within the 

 capabilities of the general surgeon, due regard has also been paid to the medical 

 management of this class of diseases. 



Although all the subjects which are discussed in the various text-books on 

 gynaecology have been treated by the author, it has been a prominent feature in 

 his plan to consider also those which are but incidentally, or not at all, mentioned 

 in the text-books hitherto published, and yet which are constantly presenting 

 themselves to the practitioner for diagnosis and treatment. 



"In the preface of the first edition of this work the author states : 'This work was written for 

 the purpose of bringing together the fully matured and essential facts in the science and art of 

 gynaecology, so arranged as to meet the requirements of the student of medicine, and be convenient 

 to the practitioner for reference. 1 The demand for a second edition has demonstrated how fully 

 this purpose has been accomplished. The reader can not fail to commend the conservatism and 

 honesty of the author's opinions, and the care with which the material has been collected and 

 arranged. The second edition contains new chapters on Ectopic Gestation, Diseases and Injuries 

 of the Ureters, and Vesical Hernia. The first of these subjects receives in this edition a careful 

 exposition, the want of which was among the few defects of the former edition. The author's 

 work in the positional disorders of the uterus and laceration of the perinaenm stands pre-eminent 

 among the contributions to this subject. His discussion of the use of pessaries throws much light upon 

 a subject which has suffered from the want of careful treatment, both pro and con. The publishers 

 deserve great credit for the illustrations and general style of the work." Medical Neivs. 



"We have very little to add to what we said of it on its first appearance, and we still regard it as 

 one of the few foremost books in this department in the English language. 'Ihe addition of 

 chapters on Diseases and Injuries of the Ureters, and on Ectopic Gestation, make it more complete. 

 Too' much praise can not be given to the illustrations, which are models of clearness, and, as is not 

 always the case, show what is meant." Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. 



