Electrolysis
Electrolysis. Electrolysis Is Thus Defined By Beard And Rockwell:' " The Term Elec Trolysis Is A General One And Signifies Decomposition By Electricity. As Such It Applies To The Electrical Decomposition Of Inorganic As Well As Of Organic Substances, And Of Animal Tissues, Whether In Health Or In Disease, Living ...
Embryological Sketch
Embryological Sketch. These Rudiments Consist Of The Primi Tive Kidneys Or Wolffian Bodies And Their Excretory Ducts, Which Early De Velop From The Lateral Plates Adjoining The Primitive Vertebree. To These Are Added Later On And On Their Inner Side, The Two Miillerian Ducts. In The Fifth Week, On The ...
Embryotomy
Embryotomy: Tripsy.—cranioclasty.—evisceration. Embryotomy Is An Operation By Which The Volume Of The Fcetus Is Diminished In Order To Render Delivery Easier, Or Even Pos Sible. It Is Known Under The Various Names Which Head This Chapter. It Has Been Practised From The Earliest Times Where The Infant Is Dead, But ...
Epidemic Diseases
Epidemic Diseases. Epidemic Colic (grippe). Jacquemier, In 1837, Found That This Affection Attacked Nearly All The Women In The Maternite. He Did Not, However, Find, As Cazeaux Did, That It Was More Fatal In Them Than In Non-gravid Women. Cazeaux, However, Noted A Large Number Of 'miscarriages, Either The Direct ...
Epithelioma And Carcinoma Of
Epithelioma And Carcinoma Of The Cervix Uteri. While It Seemed Likely For A Long Time That Histological Investigations Would Furnish Us With Exact Ideas As To The Causes Of The Malignancy Of Certain Tumors That Have For Centuries Been Called Cancer, Almost The Contrary Has Resulted; For Our Anatomical Comprehension ...
Ergot And Its Uses
Ergot And Its Uses. A Honey-like Substance Glues Together The Stamens, And This Is The Fungus Sclerotium, Which Constitutes Ergot. The Fungus Is The Result Of The Ger Mination Of A Spore Of The Claviceps Purpurea (fig. 247.) The Same Fun Gus Has Been Found On Wheat By Mialhe. (fig. ...
Eruptive Fevers
Eruptive Fevers. Stnall-pox. The Eruptive Fevers Seem To Acquire An Unusual Severity In Preg Nant Females, And Smallpox Especially, According To Most Authors, Pro Duces Abortion And Subsequent Death Of The Patients. All Writers Agree Regarding The Exceptional Gravity Of The Prognosis Of Small-pox Occurring In A Pregnant Woman. Cazeaux, ...
Erysipelas Of The Vulva
Erysipelas Of The Vulva. When The Disease Invades The System, It Does Not Enter Through The Uninjured Skin Or Mucous Membrane, But We Al Ways Seek For Some Entrance Site For The Infection. In The New-born This Site Is At The Umbilicus Or The Eroded Nates, Genitals, Etc. Both General ...
Etiology And Statistics Of
Etiology And Statistics Of Tumors Of The Breast. What We Have To Say In The Following Pages On This Subject Is The Result Of The Most Exact Observations, Which Are Well Calculated To Direct The Attention Here And There, But Without Discovering The Specific Causes. That In Organs Which, Like ...
Etiology And Systematic Account
Etiology And Systematic A.ccount Of The Opmental Anomalies Of The Uterus. Nevertheless They Had Been Fairly Studied At The Beginning Of This Century; And It Is Not Quite Proper To Say That We Knew But Little About Them Before The Appearance Of A. Kussmaul's Epoch-making Book. Thus In Fr. L. ...
Etiology And Treatment Of
Etiology And Treatment Of Contracted Pelves. Rickets Is The Disease Which Most Frequently Causes Pelvic Deformity. We May Avoid This Deformity In A Measure Then By Causing Rachitic Chil Dren To Retain A Horizontal Position So Long As The Bones Are Soft, Pliable, And Likely To Bend. The Treatment Is ...
Etiology Of Sarcoma
Etiology Of Sarcoma. The Causation Of Uterine Sarcomata Is Involved In Still Greater Ob Scurity Than That Of Fibromata Of The Uterus. Our Knowledge Concerning The Causes Of Sarcomata Is, If Possible, Less Definite Than It Is In Regard To The Origin Of Fibroids And Of Carcinomata, Because The Number ...
Etiology Of Sterility In
Etiology Of Sterility In General. _ If We Examine More Closely Those Functions Which Concern Each One Of The Two Interested Individuals, We Find That They In Reality Have But Little That Is Not Characteristic Of The Functions Of Other Organs. As Here, We Have There To Deal With Activity ...
Examination By The Finger
Examination By The Finger. The Touch May Be Either Vaginal Or Rectal. Some Authors Add Another Variety, The Vesical. The Essential Obstetrical Touch Is Vaginal And Rectal, And Vesical Touch Should Only Be Employed In Cases Of Absolute Necessity. The Vaginal Touch Is The Mode Of Exploration Which Furnishes The ...
Examination By The Urethra
Examination By The Urethra And The Bladder. Only In Exceptional Cases Is It Possible To Penetrate Through The Urethra Into The Bladder With The Finger Without Precedent Dilatation. Here And There It Happens, Generally Unintentionally, Where,—because Of Narrowing Or Impermeability Of The Vagina, Or Some Error In Development,—cohabi Tation Has ...
Examination Of The Male
Examination Of The Male. Not Only Are The Organs Much More Acces Sible, But The Maladies Causing Sterility Are Much Less Numerous, And, When Not Of Nervous Origin, Cause Much More Palpable Local Disturbances. On The Other Hand, Male Unfruitfulness Is Much More Commonly Due To Diseases Of Distant Organs ...
Extirpation Of The Mamma
Extirpation Of The Mamma And Of The Axillary Glands. -in The History Of E,ancer Of The Breast, We Can Study The Different Views As To The Nature And Treatment Of Cancer In General. Whoever Is Especially Interested In The Subject Can Find The Material In The History Of Surgery By ...
Extra Uterine Pregnancy
Extra-uterine Pregnancy. In This Treatise I Have, With Permission, Made Use Of The Preparations That Were Presented To The Vienna Pathological Museum, Up To The Year 1879, And Which Have Been Much Enriched By Professor Heschel, And By Making Drawings Of The Preparations I Have Been Able To Sketch The ...
Faradism
Faradism. The Faradic Current Is Chiefly Mechanical In. Its Effects, Although, In General, It Possesses Similar Properties To Those Of The Galvanic Current In A Less Degree It Is An Interrupted, To And Fro Current, Instead Of Being Constant, Continuous. Its Chemical Action Is Very Weak, If It Exist At ...
Fcetal Peritonitis
Fcetal Peritonitis. The Most Common Lesion Is Peritonitis, Which Has Been Studied Particu Larly, By Simpson And Lorain. Out Of 106 Still-born Infants, Lorain Has Found It 10 Times, And Out Of 19.3 Infants, Born Alive, But Dying In A Few Hours Or A Few Days After Birth, Peritonitis, Sometimes ...
Fertilization Of Ovum
Fertilization Of Ovum. On Arriving At The Ovum The Spermatozoa Bury Themselves In The Zone Pellucida, And In Fig. 91 A Number Of Them Are Shown In This Position. One Of Them Goes Further; Its Head Penetrates Into The Ovum Itself, And Separates From The Tail, Which Remains Outside And ...
Fibromata And Fibro Myomata
Fibromata And Fibro-myomata. The Results Of Close Histological Examination Of The Tumors Belonging In This Category Have Been Stated In Such A Limited Number Of The Cases, That A Differentiation Between The Muscular And The Pure Connective-tissue Forms For The Purpose Of Classification Of The Reported Cases Is Scarcely Possible. ...
Fig
Fig. I.—tural Catarrh With Rosary Form Or The Tube And Perisalplngitic Remnants (reit:mann.) Tions. Ilennig Says That The Microscope Shows The Epithelium Enlarged And Filled With Particles Of Fat. Transparent Drops Go From The Base Of The Ciliated Cylindrical Cells To The Free Surface, And There Are Arranged In Mosaic-like ...
Foreign Bodies In The
Foreign Bodies In The Female Urethra. To The Former Category Belong Portions Of The Contents Of The Intestine, G-allstones, Renal Calculi And Portions Of The Kidney Substance, Echinococcus Cysts, Vesical Calculi And Fragments Of The Wall Of The Blad Der, Hair, Bones, And Teeth Derived From The Ovaries. In The ...
Foreign Bodies In The
Foreign Bodies In The Female Bladder 1. We Ha-ve Already Mei;tioned A Large Number Of The Foreign Bodies Which Gradually Obtain Access To The Bladder On Page 154, When Discussing Perforation Of That Organ. We Have Mentioned Perforation By Inflamed Cystomata Of The Ovary, By The Products Of Extra-uterine Pregnancy, ...
Forms And Types Of
Forms And Types Of Deformed Pelves. Although Practically Pelvic Deformities May Be Divided Into Three Classes, As Viewed From An Anatomical Standpoint, There Are Several Different Varie Ties. Schroeder Describes Among The Common Forms: 1. The Generally And Uniformly Narrow Pelvis. 2. The Flattened Pelvis, Including The Non-rachitic Flattened, And ...
Forms Of The Disease
Forms Of The Disease. They Are As Numerous As They Are Varied, As Is Apparent From Consulting The Descriptions Of Different Epidemics Of Puerperal Fever. Whence The Divisions Into Metritis, Metro-peritonitis, Peritonitis, Phlebitis, Lymphan Gitis, Purulent Infection, Pleurisies, Endocartitis, Etc. Whence Also Those Numerous Diseases Described By Hervieux In His ...
Frequency And Causes Of
Frequency And Causes Of Multiple Pregnancy. The Term Multiple Pregnancy, We Include All Cases In Which The Uterus Contains Several Foetuses Instead Of A Single Foetus. When There Are Two Foetuses, Twin Pregnancy Exists. We May Also Have Triple, Quadruple Or Quintuple Pregnancies. Wappoeus Noted, Among 19, 698,322 Confinements Occurring ...
Frequency And Prognosis Of
Frequency And Prognosis Of Version. It Is Nearly Impossible To Make Any Distinct Statements In Regard To Ver Sion, For Aside From Transverse Presentations, Many Authors Prefer It To The Forceps, While Others, And We Are Of This Number, Much Prefer The For Ceps When It Is Possible To Use ...
Frequency Of The Application
Frequency Of The Application Of The Forceps. It Is Nearly Impossible To Give Exact Statistics, For The Frequency Varies With The Accoucheur And With The Country. In Stating This We Meet With The Same Difficulty As In The Preceding. The Figures Vary With The Accouchours. Aside From The Question Of ...
Functions Of The Fetus
Functions Of The Fetus. Nutrition Of The Rehm. The Nutrition Of The Fcetus Passes Through Phases Which Correspond To The Different Epochs Of Foetal Development. Before The Allantois Is Formed, The Ovum Derives Its Nourishment From The Cells That Form The Discus Proligerous; Later It Is Sustained, Through Its First ...
Fungous Growths And Parasites
Fungous Growths And Parasites Of The Vulva. The Most Common Parasite Is The Oxyuris Vermicularis. There Is Certainly No Obstacle In The Way Of The Wanderings Of This Ascaris From The Rectum Into The Vagina, Since It May Progress Along The Perineum. They Are Found Most Frequently In Little Girls. ...
Galvanism
Galvanism. The Galvanic Battery Is The Source Of A Chemical, Continuous Current, And The Properties Of This Current Are Very Different From That Furnished By The Faradic Battery. The Current Results From The Immersion Of Two Dissimilar Metals In Some Solution Which Will Decompose Them. One Of The Metal Plates ...
General Account Of Mammalian
General Account Of Mammalian Development. The Earliest Stages In The Development Of The Fertilized Human Ovum Have Not Yet Been Seen At All, And Several Of The Later Stages Are Only Very Inasmuch As A General Knowledge Of These Early And Intermediate Stages Is Absolutely Essential To The Proper Understanding ...
General Causes Of Sterility
General Causes Of Sterility. They Do Not Consist In Definite Defects Of Both Of The Married Pair; The Man Ait Well As The Woman Is Capable Of Procreation, But The Influence Of External Powers Hinders The Fertility Of The Marriage Union. These Powers Cannot Be Passed Over In Speaking Of ...