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... patient and her medical attendant . In like manner we find that during pregnancy , espe- cially in the early stages of it , the patient is annoyed with a great variety of symptoms more or less indicative of derangement in the functions ...
... patient and her medical attendant . In like manner we find that during pregnancy , espe- cially in the early stages of it , the patient is annoyed with a great variety of symptoms more or less indicative of derangement in the functions ...
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... patient , and thus tends indirectly to induce abortion by destroying the life of the fœtus , but it acts also in a more direct manner by exciting uterine contractions , particularly when accompanied , as is frequently the case , with ...
... patient , and thus tends indirectly to induce abortion by destroying the life of the fœtus , but it acts also in a more direct manner by exciting uterine contractions , particularly when accompanied , as is frequently the case , with ...
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... patient has a sensation of coldness and weight in the abdomen , so that when she turns from one side to the other , she feels as if a heavy weight rolled over to that part of the abdomen which is lowest ; the breasts are flabby , and ...
... patient has a sensation of coldness and weight in the abdomen , so that when she turns from one side to the other , she feels as if a heavy weight rolled over to that part of the abdomen which is lowest ; the breasts are flabby , and ...
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... patient is suddenly seized with an acute pain in the lower part of the abdomen , followed by nausea and vomiting ; she becomes faint and weak ; the abdomen evidently increases in size ( from effusion of blood into the cavity ) ; the ...
... patient is suddenly seized with an acute pain in the lower part of the abdomen , followed by nausea and vomiting ; she becomes faint and weak ; the abdomen evidently increases in size ( from effusion of blood into the cavity ) ; the ...
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... patient : in some instances the tumour has been opened , and a fœtus with a large quantity of putrid pus has been removed . ( Medical Obs . and Inquiries , vol . ii . p . 369. ) A case of ventral pregnancy has recently come under our ...
... patient : in some instances the tumour has been opened , and a fœtus with a large quantity of putrid pus has been removed . ( Medical Obs . and Inquiries , vol . ii . p . 369. ) A case of ventral pregnancy has recently come under our ...
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Page 121 - ... the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank it gratefully and was very sensible of his attention.
Page 298 - Remarks on Morbid Retentions of Urine," 1784. 2. " Review of Jesse Foot'* Observations on the Venereal Disease," (being an answer to his attack on John Hunter,) 1787. 3. " An Essay on the swelling of the lower Extremities incident to Lying-in Women,
Page 52 - Concurrently with the altered colour of the areola, the nipples and surrounding integuments become swollen, puffy, and more moist, secreting a fluid which stains the linen ; and the veins beneath the skin become more visible. Prominent points or glandular follicles, varying in number from twelve to twenty, project from the sixteenth to the eighth part of an inch, immediately around the base of the nipple. These changes, which are often well marked, are not, however, always so. The darkening of the...
Page 143 - Delays ; because my Father, Brothers, and my Self (tho none else in Europe as I know) have, by God's Blessing and our Industry, attained to, and long practised a way to deliver Women in this Case, without any Prejudice to them or their Infants ; tho all others (being obliged, for want of such an Expedient, to use the Common Way) do, and must endanger, if not destroy one or both with Hooks.
Page 26 - ... in its substance; they then expand or belly out a little, and again grow smaller towards their outer or uterine end, which, in by far the greater number of them, is an open mouth when separated from the uterus; how it may be while they are adherent I cannot at present say. Some of them, which I have found more deeply imbedded in the decidua, were completely closed sacs. Their form is circular, or very nearly so; they vary in diameter from the twelfth to the sixth of an inch, and project about...
Page 38 - ... furrow has been formed in it, in the bottom of which the primitive trace is situated ; about the twentieth hour this furrow is converted into a canal open at both ends, by the junction of its margins (the...
Page 253 - An Essay on the Uterine Haemorrhage which precedes the Delivery of the full-grown Foetus.
Page 132 - Naegele, on the mechanism of parturition, says, that "In every case, whether the nates have at first a completely transverse or oblique direction, they will be always found, on pressing lower into the superior aperture of the pelvis, to have taken an oblique position ; and that ischium which is directed anteriorly, to stand lowest. In the most common position, where the sacrum of the child is towards the left...
Page 287 - ... and in both moderately quick. The eye, instead of being suffused with a reddish or yellow tint, as in the others, is here generally pellucid, with dilated pupil, ' The countenance, instead of being flushed as in the others, is here pale and shrunk, with an indescribable expression of anxiety; an expression altogether so peculiar, that the disease could, on many occasions, be pronounced or inferred from the countenance alone. The surface of the body, instead of being as in the others, dry and...
Page 286 - Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines in several Diseases.