Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, Volume 32Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1891 |
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abdominal abortion abscess admission admitted albumen albuminuria amount antiseptic average binder bladder blood body Boxall Bright's disease broad ligament cancer cause cavity cent cervix chart condition Council CULLINGWORTH cyst days later death death-rate delivery died diminished diminution disease douche douche-solutions Duncan eclampsia erysipelas examination excretion Fallopian tube fever-rate fits fluid fœtus fundus glands habitual abortion Herman High fever Hosp inches kidney labour Left cured ligatures Lochia Lond Lying-in Hospital midwives Moderate fever months normal Obstetric occurred operation ovarian ovary ovum pain paper passed pelvic inflammation percentage of urea perchloride peritoneum peritonitis phthisis Physician placenta pregnancy present puerperal fever puerperium pyrexia quantity of urine rectum removed result rupture salufer Scarlatina septic rate septicemia septicemia and pelvic shows slight Society solution specific gravity specimen sublimate sutures temperature tion tissue total extirpation Trans tumour umbilicus urea urethra urine uterine uterus vaginal wall WILLIAM
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Page 70 - ... inflammation is kept up by urine trickling into the sac at each act of micturition. 2. Blood-cysts which have passed through similar changes. 3. The formation of pseudocysts by injury to the urethral floor during labor or instrumentation. Pregnancy, with its increased local activity, seems usually to induce the formation of these cysts, and parturition appears to be often the immediate cause of the rupture. The treatment is mainly surgical : 1.