Southern Journal of the Medical Sciences (Volume 2) 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. 1867. Excerpt: ... without the loss of a tablespoonful of blood. Against positive orders this patient was sitting up on the next day after the operation, and two weeks afterwards she took a long carriage ride, and suffered quite severely from metritis for several days. She however recovered from that without much trouble. P.S.--There was no discharge for two or three months after the operation; she has menstruated, however, two or three times since, but not at all excessive. The tumor was as large as a big orange, almost as thick one way as another, and nodulated. Art. IX.--Eclampsia; or, Puerperal Convulsions: By D. Warren Brickell, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics, etc., New Orleans School of Medicine. LECTURE. Gexti.e.mex--Having taken a cursory view of pretty much all that constitutes convulsive and spasmodic phenomena, whether physiological or pathological; having defined the phenomenal appearances of Eclampsia gravidarum, and subjected the same to comparison with other diseases to which it is considered more or less analogous, it seems to me to be just the stage at which we should give our attention to what is called premonition of the affection. The general idea to be derived from authors is that, while iu the great majority of cases more or less distinct premonitory symptoms exist, frequently there is no premonition whatever, the patient passing instantaneously from a perfectly normal labor into one most gravely complicated. Such is certainly not the result of my observation. During gestation we always have plain premonition, and the same is generally sufficiently prolonged to attract the attention of the jealous practitioner. In labor the premonition may not be by any means so distinct, and the duration of its existence may be but short, but I believe it is always th...