The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Band 3

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W.A. Townsend & Adams, 1870
 

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Seite 190 - Obstetric Physician to and Lecturer on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children at St. Thomas's Hospital...
Seite 338 - Thus we see that, on an emergency, somewhat more than a quarter of a ton pressure can be brought to bear upon a refractory child that refuses to come into the world in the usual manner*.
Seite 368 - Whatever be the diet adopted our object is to keep up the nutrition of the body with the smallest possible amount of irritation to the alimentary canal ; and the food, whatever it may be, which will produce this result, is the food best suited to the case. Without attention to this point little good can be effected by the use of drugs alone. The successful adjustment of the diet, an adjustment in which the quality and quantity of food to be allowed for each meal are accurately adapted to the powers...
Seite 497 - ... great value in the relief of pain during parturition. 2. It may be administered under favorable circumstances during and at the close of the second stage, with the result of producing absolute unconsciousness in the same sense in which we understand unconsciousness under chloroform. 3. When thus given successfully, it has this advantage over chloroform, that it requires no interference with the patient. 4. It is desirable to retain chloroform in the position which it at present occupies in midwifery,...
Seite 333 - ... may conclude that the uterine muscles are capable of rupturing the membranes in every case, and possess, in general, nearly three times the amount of force requisite for this purpose.
Seite 192 - Calisaya are overcome, without any injury to their active tonic principles, and blended into a beautiful amber-colored cordial, delicious to the taste and acceptable to the most delicate stomach. This preparation is made directly from the ROYAL CALISAYA BARK, not from ITS ALKALOIDS OR THEIR SALTS-being unlike other preparations called " Elixir of Calisaya and Iron," which arc simply an Elixir of Quinine and Iron.
Seite 318 - ... 4. Intra-peritoneal injections are never to be thought of except for the purpose of removing a fluid already in the peritoneal cavity, which either already has, or assuredly will have, produced septicaemia. "5. A tent may be inserted for two to four days at the lower end of the incision, with entire safety, in any case of ovariotomy where the accumulation of such fluid is apprehended. '•6. Finally, septicaemia would more rarely occur after ovariotomy if all fluid were removed from the peritoneal...
Seite 369 - ... should be diminished, or the food should be even discontinued altogether. Beyond the age of six months a little weak beef or veal tea, or the yolk of one egg unboiled, may be added to the diet. The egg is best digested when beaten up with a few drops of brandy and a tablespoonful of cinnamon-water, as in ordinary egg"flip.
Seite 375 - Bark, a combination of the Pyrophosphate of Iron and Calisaya never before attained, in which the nauseous inkiness of the Iron and...
Seite 498 - ... is one of the favorable circumstances to be noted in considering its application to childbirth. 9. Any stimulating effects, in the form of general excitability, occasionally observed during the administration, have passed away very rapidly. 10. Chloral not only does not suspend, but rather promotes uterine contraction, by suspending all reflex actions which tend to counteract the incitability of the centres of organic motion.

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