JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

PRIMARY (essential) dysmenorrhea has been described as pelvic pain with other accompanying disturbances, which occur just before or during menstruation without demonstrable pelvic or systemic disorder. Although primary dysmenorrhea is only …

Analysis of 2,850 consecutive culdoscopies showed that this procedure can be carried out in any patient with an adequate vagina and a free cul-de-sac. Previous pelvic surgery is not a contraindication, as 4 out of 10 patients had histories …

ritation of the nerves, but afterward menstruation oc- curs without pain."I have heard gynecologists declare that they never make use of tents, that such methods are antiquated; but in this class of cases the laminaria tent unfolds a power …

The introduction of the operation for removal of the tubes and ovaries as advocated almost simultaneously by Battey, Tait and Hegar, though upon distinctly different lines, opened up an extensive field for the practice of abdominal surgery.…