Obstetric Gazette Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BALTIMORE GYNAECOLOGICAL AND OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY. Regular Meeting, November 8, 1887. The President, Wm. T. Howard, M.D., in the Chair. Dr. Wm. P. Chunn... more » read a paper on A Case Of Nymphomania. In the history of the case I wish to present my efforts were exerted without avail, and it is mainly on that account, as well as to obtain the opinion of those present, that I recite the following symptoms. A short time since a patient from a neighboring state came under my care ; she was in a deplorable condition, due to an ungovernable and continual desire for sexual intercourse. She was twenty-three years old, unmarried, and had never been pregnant. Her uterus was retroverted and hyperplastic. She complained of a numbness and pain in both ovarian regions, and had worn a pessary for a long time without relief either from the pain or the sexual desire; this last was her worst symptom. She deplored the fact that anyone with sufficient opportunity could prevail over her scruples, as had already occurred several times. Sleep was lost at night and rest disturbed by delusive dreams. She had never practised any form of self-abuse. After a short course of the bromides, without effect, I suggested that marriage might give her relief. She objected to the motive, and, in addition, reminded me that she had derived no permanent benefit from illicit indulgence. Removal of the clitoris occurred to me, but only to be dismissed as unadvisable. She herself suggested the removal of the ovaries, as she felt satisfied that those organs must be diseased, thus accounting for the severe pelvic pain. This I considered to be too dangerous an experiment, as I had no certainty that she would be fully and permanently relieved by such an operation. It seemed to me that taking out the ovaries was not exact...« less