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Page 293 - The Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Diseases of Women ; including the Diagnosis of Pregnancy. By GRAILY HEWITT, MD &c. President of the Obstetrical Society of London. Second Edition, enlarged; with 116 Woodcuts. 8vo. 24s. Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By CHARLES WEST, MD &c.
Page 409 - I do not think I have ever known it fail to excite menstruation where the uterus was capable of performing this function. Disappointment will, however, most certainly result if we have recourse to electricity merely because a girl does not menstruate...
Page 109 - On motion, the report was accepted and referred to the committee on publication, the accompanying resolution being laid on the table.
Page 236 - A PRACTICAL COMPENDIUM OF MIDWIFERY: Being the course of Lectures on Midwifery, and on the Diseases of Women and Infants, delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. By the late ROBERT Goocn, MD " As It abounds, however, in valuable and original suggestions, it will be round a useful book of reference."— Drake's Western Journal.
Page 139 - 3. The several medical and pharmaceutical bodies shall be further requested to transmit to the President of the Convention, the names and residences of their respective delegates, as soon as they shall have been appointed, a list of whom shall be published, under his authority, for the information of the medical public, in the newspapers and medical journals, in the month of March, 1860.
Page 236 - AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and The Diseases of Women and Children, in the Chicago Medical College.
Page 409 - ... to act. In such cases, a few shocks transmitted through the pelvis seldom, if ever, fail in effecting menstruation. I have repeatedly known the catamenia, although previously absent for months, appear almost immediately after the use of electricity ; in more than one case the discharge actually appeared within a few minutes. The mode in which electricity has been generally employed has been by transmitting a dozen shocks from an electric jar, holding about a pint, through the pelvis ; one director...
Page 409 - ... condition ; and the patient does not menstruate, simply because she has no blood to spare. Nothing can be more ridiculous than applying electricity or any other local stimulant to the uterus when chlorosis exists : the first great indication will be to restore general health, give iron to make up for the previous deficiency of that element in the blood, and then, and not before, think of stimulating the uterus. It is true that, in a large proportion of cases, the catamenia will appear as soon...
Page 138 - I860, by the following resolutions. " 1. The President of this Convention shall, on the first day of May, 1859, issue a notice requesting the several incorporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical Colleges, the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy, throughout the United States...
Page 391 - The chief of these are — 1st. The frequent latency of the thoracic symptoms during its early stages. 2d. The almost invariable absence of haemoptysis at the commencement of the disease, and its comparatively rare occurrence during its subsequent progress. 3d. The partial or complete absence of expectoration. 4th. The rarity of profuse general sweats; and the ill-marked character of the hectic symptoms. 5th. The frequency with which death takes place from intercurrent bronchitis or pneumonia.