DISEASES OF WOMEN

FOR THE USE OF
STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

BY

ALEXANDER J. C. SKENE, M. D.

PROFESSOR OF GYNECOLOGY IN THE LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF GYNECOLOGY IN THE NEW YORK POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL
GYNECOLOGIST TO THE LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL

PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 1887

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE BRITISH, BOSTON, AND DETROIT GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETIES
OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES OF BRUSSELS
AND OF THE LEIPZIG OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY

FELLOW OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

EX-PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF KINGS
EX-PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED
WITH 251 ENGRAVINGS AND 9 CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHS

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1895

COPYRIGHT, 1888, 1892,

BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

ΤΟ

THOMAS KEITH, M. D., LL. D., F. R. C. S. E.,

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED

AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN SURGERY,

HIS JUSTICE AND COURTESY TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF AMERICA,

AND AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS KINDNESS TO THE AUTHOR.