Attitiide And Position Of
Attitiide And Position Of The Fcetiis. By Attitude Of The Foetus We Understand The Relations Of The Different Parts Of The Foetus To Each Other And To The Uterus. Enclosed In A Cavity Of Limited Extent, The Foetus Is So Placed As To Occupy The Least Possible Space. It Is, ...
Auscultation Of The Abdomen
Auscultation Of The Abdomen. Such Are The Sounds Of The Foetal Heart, Which In The Second Half Of Pregnancy Are Readily Recognizable By Their Frequency, Double Beat, And The Fact That They Are Not Synchronous With The Rhythm Of The Mother's Heart; Further The Umbilical Souffle, Which Is Not Infrequently ...
Balloitement
Balloitement. Ballottement Is A Peculiar Sensation That Is Felt Upon Giving The Fcetus An Impulse So That It Moves Wholly Or In Part In The Uterus; When, In Fact, Motion Is Imparted To The Fcetus. When This Impulse Is Transmitted Through The Abdomen, It Is Abdominal Ballottement, When Through The ...
Cancer Of The Body
Cancer Of The Body Of The Uterus. Pichot Col Lected, Mainly From French And English Sources, Forty-four Cases, The Analysis Of Which Furnishes The Basis Of His Above-mentioned Monograph. Until 1878 There Were Reported, In Addition To That Number, Thirty-six Others, In All Eighty Cases. Since Then A Much Larger ...
Cancroid And Carcinoma
Cancroid And Carcinoma. These Growths Are Also Rarely Primary In The Vagina, But Quite Fre Quently Secondary, In Particular By Extension Of Carcinotna From The Uterus To The Fornix Vaginre, And Next From That Of The Rectum, Vulva, Urethra, Less Frequently From The Bladder, And Further As Metastases From Distant ...
Carcinoma
Carcinoma. On Account Of Its Danger, Its Frightful Torments, By Which Death Is Hastened, And On Account Of Its Frequency, Cancer Of The Breast Is So Well Known, Not Only To Physicians, But Also To The Laity, That Every Woman Who Feels A Hardening Of The Breast Is At Once ...
Carcinomata And Sarcomata
Carcinomata And Sarcomata. Carcinoma Usually Occurs In The Broad Ligaments And The Pelvic Peri Toneum In Connection With Similar Disease Of The General Peritoneal Sac. Occasionally An Ovarian Carcinoma May Spread To The Broad Ligaments, Or A Cancer Of The Uterus May Spread Into The Neighboring Peritoneum And Connective Tissue. ...
Care Of The Mother
Care Of The Mother And Infant During Labor. Care Of The Mother. Attentions Which The Accoucheur Has To Give To A Woman In Labor Are So Intimate In Their Nature, So Delicate, That The First Duty Which The Attendant Must Impose Upon Himself Is, To Respect As Much As Possible ...
Causes Of The Positions
Causes Of The Positions. Vertex. —spiegelberg Has Observed That The Position Of The Head De Pends Upon The Conformity Of The Uterus To The Pelvis. The Back Of The Child Is Placed At One Side Of The Uterus, And The Head Has Its Long Diam Eter In The Longest (transverse) ...
Caws
Caws. We Fully Concur In Peter's Opinion, And Although We Admit That Rheumatism Presents Some Peculiarities In Pregnancy And The Puerperal State, We Do Not Think That It Can Be Regarded As Identical With Gonor Rhceal Rheumatism, And We Believe, Much More, In The General Influence Of The Puerperal State ...
Cele
Cele. It Is Very Seldom That There Is Entire Absence Of Milk Secretion (agalactia) After Delivery; It Only Happens When There Is Complete Absence Of The Glands. It Is Well-known, However, That, In Poorly Developed Glands. Milk-secretion Is Very Slight, And That For This Reason, Especially, Many Women Cannot Nurse ...
Changes In The Appendages
Changes In The Appendages Of The Genital Apparatus. The Broad And Round Ligaments, The Ovaries And The Tubes, Also Un Dergo Organic And Functional Changes. 1st. Broad Ligaments.—the Uterus Steadily Tends To Separate Their Two Peritoneal Folds As It Enlarges. Carried Upward By The Uterus, They Become Hypertrophied Along With ...
Changes Of The Presentations
Changes Of The Presentations And Positions. It Is By No Means Uncommon To See Presentations And Positions Change During Pregnancy And Even At The Beginning Of Labor. Favored By Any Condition That Prevents Perfect Fcetal Accommodation, These Changes Have Been Especially Studied Of Late Years, And To The Labors Of ...
Chronic
Chronic Mastitis.—cold Abscess.—tuberculosis.—sy Philis.—induration The Result Of Cicatricial Retraction. When There Appears Near Or Under The Gland A Painless, Slightly Movable Induration Which Finally, With Or Without Early Redden Ing Of The Skin, Softens, It Is Far More Probable That It Is Connected With Some Chronic Inflammatory Process Of The ...
Chronic Inflammatory Affections Of
Chronic Inflammatory Affections Of The Uterine Adnexa. Under This Term We Include The Various Affections Which Follow On Attacks Of Cellulitis Or Pelvic Peritonitis—that Is To Say, Those Cases Where Clinically We Detect Thickening Around The Uterus, In The Cellular Tissue Or Uterine Ligaments, (chronic Cellulitis, Chronic Pelvic Peritonitis), As ...
Chronic Ovaritis And Ovaralgia
Chronic Ovaritis And Ovaralgia. Under The Term Ovaritis Is Understood Congestion Or The Result Of Con • Gestion Of The Ovary. The Organ, On The Hi-manual, Is Found Enlarged, Sensitive, Possibly At A Lower Level Than Normal. It Is Movable, Not Fixed. This Definition Is Given For The Reason That ...
Chronic Pelvic Peritonitis And
Chronic Pelvic Peritonitis And Para3ietritis. We Are Well Aware Of The Fact That The Denomination That We Use For These Affections Is Not Quite Exact, For They Also May Be Acute At The Be Ginning And Of Short Duration. These So-called Chronic Forms, Since They Are Usually Of Gonorrhoeal Or ...
Circulation
Circulation. The Successive Modifications Through Which The Embryo Passes May Be Characterized By Three Successive Stages. A First Stage, Marked By The Development Of The Blastoderm And The Existence Of The Umbilical Vesicle. A Second Stage In Which The Allantois And Umbilical Vessels Appear And Develope. And A Third Stage—after ...
Coccygodynia
Coccygodynia. The Pain Is Characterized As Dull And Dragging, Often Very Severe Like That Of Toothache (scanzoni). It Increases In Intensity On Protracted Pressure On The Coccyx In The Sitting Posture, And Grows Less Or Disappears Entirely On The Assumption Of The Lateral Decubitus. The Pain Is Greatest On Sitting ...
Complete Absence Of The
Complete Absence Of The .uterits. The Difficulties Of An Exact Examination In These Cases Explain Why They Are So Often Mistaken For Complete De Fectus. Even A Post-morlem Examination Is Not Above Cavil; The Rudi Ments Of A Bi-lobed Uterus Have Been Taken For The Tubes, And Kiwisch Himself Has ...
Complications I
Complications. I. Hemorrhage.—this Always Accompanies Miscarriage In The Early Months. Generally Intermittent, It Is Usually Well Borne By The Woman; At Times, However, It May Be Because Of Difficulty In The Separation Of The Decidua, It May Be Because Of Special Hemorrhagic Tendency, Or Of A Natu Ral Stony Of ...
Conditions Requisite For The
Conditions Requisite For The Application Of The Forceps. These Are Four In Number: 1. The Os Must Be Dilated Or Dilatable. 2. The Membranes Must Have Ruptured. 3. The Forceps Should Be Applied Only To The Head. 4. The Pelvis Must Not Be Too Contracted. These Four Fundamental Conditions Seem ...
Congenital Malformations Of The
Congenital Malformations Of The Vagina. We Will Only Here Consider-those Maliormations Which Give Rise To Dan Gers Which We Must Try To Prevent, Or Cause Physiological Disturbances Of Function Which We Can Endeavor To Rectify. There Must Be No Important Developmental Fault In Uterus And Ovaries, So That The Difficulties ...
Congenital Syphilis
Congenital Syphilis. In Studying Maternal Syphilis We Have Shown The Conditions In Which The Disease Is Transmitted To The Fcetus. In Connection With Diseases Of The Placenta, Membranes And Cord, We Have Noted The Lesions Which Are Regarded As Characteristic Of Syphilis; It Now Remains To Study Them In The ...
Conjoined Manip17lation
Conjoined Manip17lation. This Is A Fourth Mode Of Obstetrical Exploration Which The Germans, True To Their Instincts, Have Endeavored To Appropriate, Giving It The Name Of Combined Exploration. It Consists In The Association Of External And Internal Palpation,—that Is To Say, While The Finger In The Vagina Is Ex Ploring ...
Contra Indications To The Use
Contra-indications To The Use Of Electricity. In The Present State Of Our Knowledge Of The Electro-therapeutics Of The Female Sexual Organs It Does Not Appear Advisable To Resort To Electri Zation In The Presence Of Any Specially Acute Process. Sub-acute Inflam Matory Affections May Be Very Cautiously So Treated, Even ...
Convulsions Not Due To
Convulsion's Not Due To Eclampsia. Puerperal Eclamptic Convulsions, We 8nd Numer Ous Cases Referred To In Literature, As Puerperal Convulsions. These Are Convulsions Occurring In The Puerperal State, And Differ Essentially From True Eclampsia. Thus, .taoquemier, Under The Heading Convulsions With Out Determinate Form, Cites Baudelocque's Case Of A Woman ...
Copulation
Copulation. Copulation, Or Coition, Consists Of The Union Of The Two Sexes, Which Should Be Preceded In Man By Erection Of The Penis, The Placing Of The Glans In The Genital Organs, And The Emission Of Semen Or Fecundating Fluid, Which Is Thus Carried Directly Into The Genital Organs. It ...
Course Clinical History
Clinical History, Course, And Symptoms. Our Knowledge Of The Symptomatology Of Uterine Sarcoma Would Not Be Essentially Improved By A Separate Consideration Of The Two Distinct Forms Of These Tumors Above Described. The Two Forms Have So Much In Common, Have Been So Little Studied And So Poorly Differentiated In ...