The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Volume 32W.A. Townsend & Adams, 1895 |
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abdominal section abdominal wall abscess adhesions appendages bladder blood bowels broad ligament canal catgut cause celiotomy cent centimetres cervix child condition cure curetting cyst danger death diagnosis dilatation discharge disease distended drain drainage tube eclampsia endometritis endometrium examination Fallopian tube fibroid fluid forceps fundus gauze genital Gynecological Gynecologists hemorrhage hernia Hospital inches incision infection inflammation intestines iodoform irrigation kidney labor laceration lesion ligature Medical menstruation method months nervous normal OBSTETRICS occurred opening operation organs ovarian ovaries and tubes ovary ovum packing pain patient pelvic performed peritoneal cavity peritoneum physician placenta posterior pregnancy present prolapse puerperal puerperal sepsis pulse pyosalpinx recovery rectum removed reported result round ligaments rupture salpingitis sepsis septic side sterile suppuration surgeon surgery surgical sutures symptoms temperature tion tissue treatment tubal tubes and ovaries tumor tympanites urethra urine usually uterus vaginal hysterectomy weeks woman women
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Page 173 - Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 173 - Infant's Weight Chart. Designed by JP CROZER GRIFFITH, MD , Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the University of Pennsylvania, etc.
Page 289 - I have only to thank you for the kind manner in which you have received my paper, and I am glad if it has been of any use to the Society.
Page 93 - From great violence done her person will be a cripple for life. No use of her lower extremities. M. Aged about 10. Crawled to hospital on her hands and knees. Has never been able to stand erect since her marriage.
Page 770 - There is no appeal as strong or as effective as thaf for the protection of a mother, wife, or sister against disease, lifelong misery, or death itself. My friend, Dr. RB Hall, has so forcibly expressed similar views that I close with a free quotation. "The family physician should impart knowledge upon every legitimate occasion upon the subject of gonorrheal infection. He should instruct the parents of boys, and the young men themselves, of the great danger to the health of their future wives should...
Page 93 - G. Aged about 10. Very weak from loss of blood. Stated that great violence had been done her in an unnatural way. H. Aged about 12.
Page 624 - Parry, whose untimely death scientific obstetricians still mourn, read a paper before the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia on " The Use of the Hand to Correct Unfavorable Presentations and Positions of the Head During Labor.
Page 89 - The patient should have the usual preparation for celiotomy ; ie, diet, daily baths, cathartics, etc. For three days prior to operation order the patient to drink one pint of hot water an hour before each, meal and on retiring, thus drinking two quarts of water each twenty-four hours, the last pint to be taken three hours before the time set for operating. Do not omit to give the water the day previous to the operation, while the patient is restricted to a limited amount of liquid nourishment, and...
Page 342 - I doubt even if the mortality of the extreme cases exceeds this. And, after all, the great difficulty is, not in doing even the worst of these operations, but in knowing what are the cases in which it is right to advise those who trust themselves to us to run the risk of a dangerous operation, with all its attendant miseries. Could we get the mortality down to five per cent. in the bad cases, and these only are the fit subjects, then one might advise interference with a more easy mind. I do not think...