A System of midwifery

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James Maclehose, 1873 - 835 pagina's
 

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Pagina 516 - I can neither approve of that practice nor those delays ; because my father, brothers and myself (though none else in Europe as I know) have, by God's blessing, and our industry, attained to, and long practiced a way to deliver women in this case, without any prejudice to them or...
Pagina 519 - There can be no greater fallacy. In the first place, a weak instrument is, by the mere fact of its weakness, restricted to a very limited class of cases. In the second place, if the instrument is weak, it calls for more muscular force on the part of the operator. Now, it is sometimes necessary to keep up a considerable degree of force for some time, and not seldom in a constrained position. Fatigue follows; the operator's muscles become unsteady ; the hand loses its delicacy of diagnostic touch,...
Pagina 718 - It is pretty well admitted that rapid ingress of abnormal fluid suddenly, and in large amount, will cause instantaneous coagulation of the blood; and it is also admitted that large drains from the system are followed by rapid and compensatory absorption. There is good reason for believing that these conditions are fulfilled, in a perfect and ample degree, in conjunction with the presence of wound — facilitating absorption — in a great many cases, prior to the occurrence of phlegmasia dolens,...
Pagina 574 - When the breech has arrived at about the transverse diameter of the uterus the head will have cleared the brim, and the shoulder will be opposite the os, that is pushed on in like manner as the head, and after a little further depression of the breech from the outside, the knee touches the finger and can be hooked down by it. It very frequently happens when the membranes are perfect that as soon as the shoulder is felt, the breech and foot come to the os in a moment, in consequence of the tendency...
Pagina 574 - ... lubricated my left hand, I introduce it as far into the vagina as is necessary, in order to reach a finger's length within the cervix. Sometimes it requires the whole hand, sometimes three or four fingers will be sufficient in the vagina. Having clearly made out the head and its direction, whether...
Pagina 438 - ... 4. As the hole made by the body of the child is not sufficiently large for the arms and head to pass through at the same time, they will consequently be arrested ; and if force be applied to overcome the resistance, it will almost always separate the whole of the placenta from its connections with the uterus.
Pagina 711 - before the appearance of any swelling or sense of pain in the limb about to be affected, women become very irritable, with a sense of great weakness, and grievously oppressed in their spirits, without any apparently sufficient reason ; complaining only of transient pains in the region of the uterus, and from these the approach of the disease has frequently been foretold.
Pagina 772 - The pulse rises rapidly in frequency, often beating one hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty strokes in a minute ; sometimes it is fluttering and tremulous; at others fuller and firmer than in peritonitis. The mouth is generally dry; the tongue occasionally furred, or it is harsh and red. The countenance becomes early changed, though not so anxious as in peritonitis. Most severe pain in the head is experienced, with intolerance of light and noise, uninterrupted wakefulness, and in many cases...
Pagina 755 - If, after numerous uraemic convulsive fits, the child is born still alive, a large quantity of urea is found in the blood taken from the umbilical cord ; but if it is born dead, we can, immediately after the birth, demonstrate the presence of carbonate of ammonia in the foetal blood.
Pagina 768 - This was in a town of moderate size, and no other patients in the place were known to have had puerperal fever. In another recorded instance, two medical men, brothers and partners, attended in the space of five months twenty cases of midwifery. Of these, fourteen were affected with puerperal fever, a fatal result ensuing in eight cases. The only other known death from puerperal fever, in the same town, within the period named, occurred in the case of a patient attended by a medical man who had assisted...

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