The Crux of Pastoral Medicine: The Perils of Embryonic Man: Abortion, Craniotomy and the Cesarean Section; Myoma and the Porro Section

Front Cover
F. Pustet & Company, 1906 - Abortion - 221 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 27 - I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
Page 28 - But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Page 68 - ... morality, and Christianity are supposed to have so much influence ; where all the domestic and social virtues are reported as being in full and delightful exercise; even here individuals, male and female, exist, who are continually imbruing their hands and consciences in the blood of unborn infants; yea, even medical men are to be found, who, for some trifling pecuniary recompense, will poison the fountains of life, or forcibly induce labor, to the certain destruction of the foetus, and not unfrequently...
Page 92 - ... cut out the tumor, you may find it to contain foetal life. In such urgent danger, can you lawfully perform the operation? Let us apply our principles. You mean to operate on a tumor affecting one of the mother's organs. The consequences this may have for the child are not directly willed, but permitted. The four conditions mentioned before, are...
Page 90 - Necessitate cogente, licitam esse laparotomiam ad extrahendos e sinu matris ectopicos conceptus, dummodo et foetus et matris vitae, quantum fieri potest, serio et opportune provideatur.
Page 11 - In either case we must suppose ideas, as is clear for the following reason: In all things not generated by chance, the form must be the end of any generation whatsoever. But an agent does not act on account of the form, except in so far as the likeness of the form is in the agent, as may happen in two ways.
Page 92 - What you intend directly, the operation on the mother's organism, is good in itself; (c) The good effect intended, her safety, to which she has an undoubted right, overbalances the evil effect, the possible death of the child, whose right to life is doubtful, since its very existence is doubtful; now, a certain right must take precedence of a doubtful right of the same species; (d) The evil is not made the means to obtain the good effect (see "Am. Eccl. Rev.", Nov., 1893, p.
Page 11 - Forma. Hence by ideas are understood the forms of things, existing apart from the things themselves. Now the form of anything existing apart from the thing itself can be for one of two ends; either to be the type of that of which it is called the form, or to be the principle of the knowledge of that thing, inasmuch, as the forms of things knowable are said to be in him who knows them.
Page 121 - Direct Abortion — every interference which must necessarily cause the expulsion of the unviable fruit — is permissible under no circumstances, no matter how ethical the object may be. The medico-scientific postulate of abortion is to be judged exclusively from the mother's sphere of interest. Here then they insist upon i) the uncontrollable vomiting of the pregnant (Hyperem.
Page 70 - Now, let us take the lower view, and regard the question as one of expediency merely. There is no medicine known to the profession which possesses the specific property of inducing miscarriage ; many will do it in some cases, but only secondarily ; that is, in proportion as they shatter the constitution, ruin the health, and produce a state of the system which renders it incompetent, through debility, to sustain pregnancy. Medicines, then, are out of the question if a man loves his wife, and values...

Bibliographic information