Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, Volume 16Oliver and Boyd, 1891 With vol. 26: Laws of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. 1901. |
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abdominal section abdominal wall albumen amnion applied attached axis axis-traction forceps bladder blade blood brim broad ligament canal cause cent cervix child chorion clitoris condition corpuscles curve cyst decidua delivery diagnosis diameter dilatation direction disease Dr Barbour Dr Brewis Dr Haultain Dr James Dr Keiller eclampsia Edinburgh ergotin examination extra-peritoneal extra-uterine Fallopian tube felt fibroid finger flat pelvis foetal head foetus genital corpuscles gestation hæmorrhage handles hysterectomy inches infant instrument labia minora labour layer ligature lower uterine segment maternal impressions membranes ment Midwifery months mother nerve-endings normal nymphæ obstetric occiput occurred operation ovarian tumour ovary pain paper papillæ patient pelves pelvis perineum peritoneal cavity peritoneum placenta position posterior pregnancy present primiparæ Prof Professor Simpson pruritus removed rods rupture seen shanks showed Simpson symptoms Tarnier tion tissue traction traction-rod transverse treatment tumour umbilicus uterus vaccinated vaginal portion vascular vulva
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Page 10 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Page 49 - Such statements, made with all the assurance of certainty, are worthless, being mere assumptions unsupported by physiological or pathological evidence. They are scientific expressions of ignorance, and are the common resource...
Page 13 - ... cannot help thinking it quite consistent with reason and the present state of our knowledge, to believe that a very powerful impression on the mother's mind, or nervous system, may injuriously affect the foetus; and it will, at least, be always safe and prudent to act on such a presumption, for "although...
Page 52 - Many of these, if traced from deeper parts towards their terminations, are seen to acquire a dense fibrous character, some appearing as well-marked fibrous cords, the nerve fibres being compressed or destroyed. In some cases they can be followed to their special endcorpuscles, which may also show the same changes.
Page 33 - Suggestive. — a. The general and reflex symptoms of pregnancy, especially if the pregnancy had occurred after a considerable period of barrenness, b. Disordered menstruation, especially metrorrhagia, coincident with symptoms of pregnancy ; gushes of blood, accompanied by severe pelvic pains, c. Severe pain in the pelvis ; attacks of pelvic pain followed by tenderness in either iliac region, and other symptoms of pelvic inflammation.
Page 13 - ... to be a sufficient number of facts on record to prove that habitual mental conditions on the part of the mother may have influence enough at an early period of gestation to produce evident bodily deformity or peculiar tendencies of the mind.
Page 10 - The strength of imagination in pregnant women examined and the opinion that marks and deformities in children arise from thence demonstrated to be a vulgar error...
Page 53 - M del. marked in the corium under the papillae, and affect especially the prepuce and nymphse, being found in the clitoris only in the glans under the epithelium, and much less marked than in the labia minora. In the corium of the latter are seen many minute vessels with abundant exudation of leucocytes into the peri- vascular lymphatics, while in many parts the sub-epithelial tissue is a mass of leucocytes and proliferating connective-tissue corpuscles. These changes are most marked in the hypertrophied...
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Page 31 - ... and gently with the unaided hands, and upon the examination thus made the practitioner should train himself to rely. 2. That no mechanical aids to sight or touch should be employed, except under exceptional circumstances. 3. That as a large proportion of the risks and accidents of minor...