Memphis Medical Monthly Volume 20, No. 4 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of carbolic acid into a tumor which is continuous with and not alone contiguous to some of the most vital parts of the human structure. Well might the subject of this devastating experiment say she has lived only in the past, or that life once so sweet to her, even in her poverty, has now become a burden, and death itself offers to her the only ray of hope. She is now about forty years of age, has never borne a child, and was in perfect health until for the relief of a small hemorrhoidal tumor she submitted to the procedure just men tioned. The result, which is exceptionally grave in her case, is only an exaggeration of those which have in a number of instances been presented to me. "Read before Tri-State Med. Assn. (Miss. Ark. &Tenn.) Memphis, Nov. 16,1899. I was called by my friend and confrere, Dr. Stanley, of this city, to see this woman, and upon arriving at her bedside I was able to get this history. She had a small hemorrhoidal tumor injected by some one, and a few days thereafter the pain which had been constant since the injection was made increased, and a few days later she began to discharge pus from the bowels. This sloughing process, continuing for a long time, became to her a death warning, and when Dr. Stanley was called, he found her in the condition which I describe. The perineum has entirely sloughed away, the anterior or perineal halves of the sphincters are gone, the pus has undermined all muscles of this region and the bowel is protruded, engorged and inflamed; the mass is the size of a large cocoanut, is eroded and gangrenous in appearance. The hemorrhoidal tumor, which I fancy was the offending part in the beginning, will be noted oft' at one side still wearing an air of endurance. The woman is dying with sepsis, and the one ...