Diseases Of Tiie Skin
Diseases Of Tiie Skin. Besides The Regular Eruptions Of Pregnant Women, There Is Often Ex Tremely Severe Itching Of The Skin, Without Visible Lesion. This Itching, Which May Commence At The Beginning Or Not Until The Second Half Of Pregnancy, May Reappear During Consecutive Pregnancies, (cases Of Mas Lieurat Lagemard.) ...
Diseases Of Tile Nipple
Diseases Of Tile Nipple And Areola. When The Child In Nursing Wounds The Nipple, Especially At Its Base, And The Mother, Despite The Intense Pain, Continues To Nurse The Child Without Taking Necessary Precautions, Deep, Penetrating, Chink-like Ulcers Are Formed. In Such Cases Nursing From The Injured Breast Must Cease ...
Displacements Of The Vagina
Displacements Of The Vagina. Hence Vaginal Displacements Uo Not Possess The Importance Which Atta,ches To Dislocations Of Other Organs. We Would Refer The Reader To The Introductory Chapter For An Anatomical Description Of These Attach Ments. Pathological Dislocations Of The Vagina Depend Upon A Change In The Normal Fixation Of ...
Disturbances Of Digestion
Disturbances Of Digestion. As Pajot Says, The Functions Of The Digestive Apparatus May Be Exag Gerated, Diminished Or Perverted. Are Many Women Whose Digestive Functions Are Not Only Not Disturbed By Pregnancy, But, On The Contrary, Seem To Be Aug Mented. Their Appetites Increase, Digestion Is More Active, The Nutrition ...
Disturbances Of Nutrition Of
Disturbances Of Nutrition Of Tiie Female Urethra. But From The Comparatively Small Area Affected, Th?y Are Neither Symptomatically Nor Therapeutically As Important As The Cor Responding Affections In The Male. These Affections Are Often Only Stages Of One And The Same Process, And We Will Therefore Not Treat Them Each ...
Disturbances Of The Circulation
Disturbances Of The Circulation. Influence Of Pregnanry On Diseases Of The Heart.—by Reference To The Previous Remarks Concerning The Modifications In The Circulatory System Produced By Pregnancy, The Reader Will See That, Aside From The Hypertrophy Of The Uterine Vessels, The Changes In The Circulation May Consist In: 1st. Increase ...
Dlseases Of The Vulva
Dlseases Of The Vulva And Of The Vagina. Pruritus Vu/vo3. This Disease, Although Not Peculiar To Pregnant Women, Sometimes As Sumes Especial Intensity With Them. By The Term Is Understood A Severe Itching Of The External Genitals, Which Sometimes Extends To The Introitus Vaginx, And Amounts To Real Torture. Generally, ...
Double Bladder Deficient Vw11ca
Deficient Vw:11ca L Developsient, Double Bladder, V Esica Duplex, Partitioned_ Bladder, Vesica Bilocularis. " Cases Of Double Bladder Will Become Rarer As The Knowledge Of Patho Logical Anatomy Advances," Said Vidal, Remarking That Pathologie,a1 Septa Have Probably Been Taken For A Double Organ. He Then Mentions Molinetta, Who In His ...
Dufation Of Retention
Duf.ation Of Retention. The Dead Fcetus May Remain A Variable Time In The Uterine Cavity Before Being Expelled. There Is No Absolute Limit. Where Death Occurs In The Course Of An Acute Disease, Or As The Result Of Traumatic Influence, Expul Sion Is Ordinarily Rapid. If, On The Contrary, It ...
Duration Of Hydatid Gestation
Duration Of Hydatid Gestation. Dubois And Desormeaux Describe Three Varieties Of Hydatid Mole: 1st. The Embryonal Hydatid Mole. 2d. The Hollow Hydatid Mole. 3d. The Hydatid Mole En Mane. The First Variety Consists Of A Membrane, Vesicular On Its Outer Surface, With An Internal Cavity Containing A Fcetus Or Parts ...
Duration Of Labor
Duration Of Labor. Some Writers Include In Their Figures All The Pre Cursory Phenomena, Others Leave Them Altogether Out Of Consideration. But Above All, Two Facts Can Be Demonstrated: 1st. While Some Women Have A Rapid Delivery, Others Give Birth To Their Children With Extreme Slowness, And This Independent Of ...
Duration Of Pregnancy
Duration Of Pregnancy. To Exactly Compute The Duration Of Pregnancy We Ought To Know The Precise Moment Of Fecundation, Which Is Out Of The Question. It Is There Fore Necessary To Have Recourse To The Last Menstrual Period. The Authorities Are Far From Agreeing About This. Some Believe That Concep ...
Duration Of The Disease
Duration Of The Disease Until Death. As Tumors Never Disappear In A Definite Manner Spontaneously, We Can Not Speak Here Of A Spontaneous Course Going On To Cure. Further, As We Possess No Therapeutic Means Which Cause A Carcinoma To Disappear, We Cannot Speak Of A Cure In The Ordinary ...
Dysii Enorri1 Ea
Dysii Enorri1 Ea. Painful Menstruation Is A Concomitant Symptom Of Such A Large Num Ber Of Diseases Of The Female Sexual Organs That Any Consideration Of Its Relief By Electricity .or Other Means Must Necessarily Be Deferred Till We Treat Of The Individual Affections With Which It Is Associated. There ...
Dystocia Due To Abnormal
Dystocia Due To Abnormal Presentations Or Positions. I. Presentations Of The Vertex. The Vertex May Not Present Regularly With Reference To The Axis Of The Superior Strait, That Is To Say, It May Be Inclined. When Slight, This May Be Considered Normal, But When Exaggerated, It Becomes A Cause Of ...
Dystocia Due To Obstruction
Dystocia Due To Obstruction At The Cervix. The Obstacles May Be Due To Rigidity Of The Cervix, Adhesion Or Oblit Eration Of The Same, Or To Lesions Of Various Kinds, Tumors, Abscesses, Etc., Which Prevent Dilatation. Rigidity Of The Cervix.—under This Expression Nv.3 Refer To A Peculiar Condition Characterized By ...
Dystocia Due To The
Dystocia Due To The Fietal Annexes. Anomalies Of The Cord.—we Have Already Studied The Anomalies (see Vol. I.) Of The Cord, Which May Interfere Directly Or Indirectly With The Foetus. We Will Now Pass In Review The Most Frequent Cause Which Ren Ders Delivery Dangerous To The Infant, Prolapse Of ...
Dystocia Owing To The
Dystocia Owing To The Condition Of Tile Soft Parts. Contraction And Rigidity Qf The Vulva And Vagina.—in Women Who Be Come Pregnant Late In Life, Or Possess Strong Muscular Development, The External Genitals May Be Rigid And Resist Dilatation, Thus Retarding The Progress Of Labor. The Head Succeeds In Overcoming ...
Dystocia From The Side
Dystocia From The Side Of The Retits. The Causes May Be Divided Into The Six Following Classes: 1. Excess Of Volume Without Pathological Alteration. 2. Excess Of Volume Through Pathological Alteration. 3. Abnormal Presentations And Positions. 4. Prolapse And Vicious Position Of The Limbs. 5. Twin Pregnancies. 6. Monstrosities. These ...
Eclampsia
Eclampsia. Eclampsia May Declare Itself During Pregnancy, Labor Or The Puerperal State. Authorities Have Been Accustomed To Describe It In The Portion Of Their Works Which Treats Of Dystocia. We Believe It More Rational To Ar Range It Among The Diseases Of Pregnancy, On Account Of The Intimate Re Lations ...
Edema And Gangrene Of
(edema And Gangrene Of The Vulva. During Pregnancy Edema Is Ordinarily Only An Effect Of Mechanical Congestion, And In The Puerperium It Is An Early Sign Of Local Infection. As A Result Of Mechanical Interference With The Circulation Both Labia, As A Rule, Enlarge, Since The Obstacle To The Circulation ...
Electricity As An Oxytocic
Electricity As An Oxytocic. In Passing To The Second Division Of Our Subject, Which, Broadly Speak Ing, Concerns The Utility Of Electricity As An Agent For Re-enforcing Or Awakening Uterine Contractions, We Are Justified In Taking For Granted The Acceptance Of The Statement That Electricity Is Able To Cause Contractions ...
Electricity In Ectopic Gestation
Electricity In Ectopic Gestation. The Earliest Record Of Resort To Electricity For The Purpose Of Destroy Ing The Foetus Developing Outside Of The Uterus Is In The Year 1853 When Bachetti And Burci Used Electro-puncturo With The Faradic Current And Successfully Arrested Gestation In The Left Fallopian Tube. ' About ...
Electricity In Obstetrics
Electricity In Obstetrics. In Treatises On The Art Reference Is Here And There Made To Its Value, But The Impression Or Dinarily Given To The Reader Is That However Useful The Agent Might Be There Is Rarely An Opportunity To Prove This, Seeing That The Apparatus Is Not At Hand ...
Electrodes And Their General
Electrodes And Their General Application. Having Briefly Sketched The Nature Of The Electric Currents Of Use In Gynecology, Their General Applications And The Means For Measuring And Modifying Them, It Remains To Speak Of The Agents By Which These Currents May Be Brought To Bear On The Pelvic Organs. These ...