The American Gynaecological and Obstetrical Journal, Volume 12D. Appleton and Company, 1898 - Gynecology |
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2d stage 30 grains abdominal wall abortion abscess adhesions appendages believe bladder blood born edge born maternal surface broad ligament catgut cause cervix child condition Credé cure curette cyst diagnosis dilatation disease drainage endometritis enucleation examination fibroid tumor finger fistula fixation foetal surface forceps frequently full term fundus gauze Gynecological hæmorrhage Hospital hr.½ hour hysterectomy incision infection intestines iodoform kidney labor laceration laparotomy ligature menstruation method months myomectomy neurasthenia normal Obstetrical occurred opening operation organs ovarian ovary pain paræ patient pedicle pelvic perinæum peritonæum peritoneal cavity pessary Plac placenta placental birth position posterior pregnancy premature present pressure rectocele rectum removed reported round ligaments rupture sepsis septic side specimen spontaneous sterility stitch surgeon sutures symptoms temperature tion tissue treatment tubal tube ureter urine uterine cavity uterine wall uterus vaginal wall weeks woman wound
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Page 709 - There is a growing conviction that the ovary belongs to the same group of organs as the thyroid, thymus and pineal glands and that in addition to the function of ovulation, it secretes a substance which is absorbed and consumed in the animal economy, and which is necessary to its physiological balance.
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Page 278 - C. were injected, while the rectal temperature was being taken and found to have increased the temperature but one-fifth of a degree. Haemorrhage, after injection of considerable saline, shows little tendency to spontaneous arrest or clotting. The combination of small and frequently repeated hypodermic injections of strychnia, together with saline injection, makes a most effectual combination. Strychnia alone causes acceleration of the heart, with shorter beats. Saline alone causes a more forcible...
Page 164 - ... debilitated by haemorrhages or sepsis, prompts me to present this subject to-night, with deductions from five cases which I have observed. No reliable statistics of the frequency of this condition exist. Hirst's "American System of Obstetrics" states that Mdme Boivin saw the disease only twice in 20,375 pregnancies, while in the Charity Hospital in Berlin it occurred four times in 2,130 pregnancies. Perhaps the latter is nearer the truth. A disease, however, which affects the membranes early...
Page 592 - On the Mechanism of the Expulsion of the Placenta," gives this statement on page 901 : "My own numerous observations satisfy me that inversion of the placenta, or its folding upon itself transversely to the passage, or the presentation of its foetal surface, is a very rare occurrence." On page 902 he says, "It [the placenta] comes edgeways." In speaking of the illustration which is given in his article, he says that the picture represents "a placenta folded upon its fcetal surface," ie, maternal...
Page 149 - The uterus, something like the parrot, will do the talking for every organ of the body and mimic every disease in the encyclopaedia of pathology. The pelvic organs are as dials upon which are expressed the ills of the entire body in many of the neuroses. How few of us can positively differentiate between profound neurasthenia expressing itself in the pelvis and diseased pelvic organs causing and maintaining profound neurasthenia?