A System of obstetric medicine and surgeryLea, 1885 - 884 pages |
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Page 169 - ... of March, to the day of the Blessed Nativity, which we celebrate in December. Prudent matrons calculating after this rule, as long as they note the day of the...
Page 423 - As to the manner in which this evolution takes place, I presume that, after the long-continued action of the uterus, the body of the child is brought into such a compacted state as to receive the full force of every returning action. The body, in its doubl'ed state, being too large to pass through the pelvis, and the uterus pressing upon its inferior extremities, which are the only parts capable of being moved, they are...
Page 313 - Each cyst, as it enlarges, seems to lead to the wasting of the cells around it ; and then, moving away from the villus in which it was formed, it draws out the base of the villus, which strengthens itself, and forms the pedicle on which the cyst remains suspended.
Page 593 - ... perfecting of the cephalotribe. At the present day we may boast of having good and effective instruments of all kinds, each capable of doing excellent work in its own peculiar sphere, and moreover endowed with a certain capacity for supplanting its rival instruments. For example, the long forceps is adapted to supplant craniotomy in a certain range of cases of minor disproportion.
Page 397 - On this point he says also, in describing the first position : " Tho head has not at the brim » direct hut a perfectly oblique position, so that the point which lies lowest or deepest is neither the vertex nor the sagittal suture, but the right parietal bone.
Page 313 - The whole process may, therefore, be probably thus described: — Certain of the cells in the proper villi of the chorion, deviating from their cell-form, and increasing disproportionately in size, form cysts, which remain connected by the gradually elongated and hypertrophied tissue of the villi. " On the outer surface of the new-formed cysts, each of which would, as it were, repeat the chorion and surpass its powers, a new vegetation of villi ¡sprouts out, of the same structure as the proper villi...
Page 443 - ... whilst the os internum uteri is still closed, the arrest of the flooding and the expansion of the os may be promoted by rupturing the membranes and the use of tents. 5. Since a cross-presentation or other unfavorable position of the child is apt to impede or destroy the regular contractions of the uterus, which are necessary to arrest the flooding, it is mostly desirable to deliver as soon as the condition of the os uteri will permit. 6. In some cases the simple use of means to excite contraction...
Page 296 - On once shooting a pregnant Kudu doe, I directed my native huntsman, a married man, to dissect her womb and expose the embryo; but he shrank from the work with horror, fearing lest the sight of the kid, striking his mind, should have an influence on his wife's future bearing.
Page ii - DCL Oxon., LL. D. Cantab., Emeritus Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. A System of Surgery : Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Operative. Sixth edition, thoroughly revised and greatly improved. In two large and beautifullyprinted imperial octavo volumes containing 2382 pages, illustrated by 1623 engravings. Strongly bound in leather, raised bands, $15; half Russia, raised bands, $16. Dr. Gross...
Page 168 - Unquestionably the ordinary term of utero-gestation is, that which we believe was kept in the womb of his mother by our Saviour Christ, of men the most perfect; counting, viz., from the festival of the Annunciation in the month of March, to the day of the Blessed Nativity, which we celebrate in December.