Uncontrollable impulses and perversions of moral instincts are frequently observed during the climacterium, as at other periods of life. There is no reliable statistical evidence sufficient to establish a necessary pathological connection between cessation and uncontrollable peevishness, impulse to deceive, suicidal impulse, nymphomania, dipsomania, kleptomania, and the like. Nor is it possible to assert that these various disorders are of more frequent occurrence during the menopause than at other periods of life.
DISEASES OF THE PARENCHYMA OF THE UTERUS; METRITIS AND ENDOMETRITIS.
BY W. W. JAGGARD, A.M., M.D.
Acute Metritis.
The occurrence of an acute inflammation of the parenchyma of the non-gravid uterus has been denied by many systematic writers. Wenzel1 says the condition is a figment of the imagination; Duparcque is sceptical; Klob2 up to 1864 had never seen a case in which a positive diagnosis was possible. Emmet3 writes in the last edition of his valuable book, "Inflammation of the uterine body never occurs except after parturition."
1 Krankheiten des Uterus, p. 42.
2 Pathol. Anatomie der Weibl. Sexualorgane.