The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Volume 72W.A. Townsend & Adams, 1915 |
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abdominal abscess acute adhesions albumin amenorrhea amount anesthesia anesthetic appendicitis baby bladder blood cancer carcinoma cause cavity cecum cells cent cervix Cesarean section child chronic clinical condition corpus luteum curetted cyst developed diagnosis diameter dilatation discharge disease doses dysmenorrhea edema examination experience fetal fetus fibroid fluid forceps frequently fundus gall-bladder glands grams gynecologist hemorrhage hernia hospital hysterectomy incision increased infants infection intestinal Jour kidney labor lactation lesions malignant mass meningitis menstruation method milk months mortality muscle normal observed Obstetrics obstruction occurred operation organs ovarian ovary pain patient pelvic peritoneal peritoneum placenta position posterior pregnancy present protein pubiotomy pyelitis radium reaction removed reported rupture serum showed surgeon surgical sutures symptoms temperature tion tissue toxemia treatment tube tuberculosis tumor ureter urine usually uterine Uterine fibroid uterus vaccine vaginal vomiting wall weeks woman women x-ray
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Page 165 - A REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science. By Various Writers.
Page 196 - Cretinism is due to the action of toxic agents, notably that of endemic goitre, on the developing thyroid of the unborn child. The thyroid defect is congenital, but it may remain latent pending its manifestation through the impulse of some accidental circumstance.
Page 203 - In a great majority of these diverse types of illness there is an abnormal condition of the stools: this may often be a true diarrhea, but not seldom also merely a too soft consistence of the stool with or without the presence of mucus.
Page 177 - ... enlargement, without cyanosis, is probably defective interventricular septum. If the murmur is not transmitted into the vessels of the neck, this lesion exists alone. If the murmur is so transmitted, or if the "humming top" murmur is present, the lesion is probably combined with open ductus arteriosus.
Page 201 - ... is performed the following week, the operative recovery requiring only a week or ten days. The operation itself consists of a vertical incision over the side of the head two and one-half to three inches in length, extending from the parietal crest down to a point overlying the zygomatic arch and just anterior to the external auditory meatus; that is, to the lowermost point of the cranial cavity. The...
Page 80 - All cases of myoma in older women in whom there is already a well-advanced anemia, which may be the cause of an anemic heart. 2. All elderly and young women with myomas, in whom there is marked organic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic nephritis, marked lung disease and goiter with cardiac symptoms.
Page 824 - In the operation of splenectomy the incision should be made over the most prominent part of the tumor, if large, but, if small, in the left linea semilunaris.
Page 757 - ... digested as meat protein on account of the water content of 3 to 5 per cent, in nuts against 50 to 70 per cent, in meats. It was, therefore, fair to assume that the finer nuts were divided, chopped and mashed, the more rapid would be their digestibility. Salt did not make nut food more digestible. Mothers should understand the food value of nuts better, giving a variety of nuts to suit the individual child, but it must be understood that they were given as an addition to the diet. After weaning...
Page 610 - January pieces of bone began to come away, and portions of bone were removed by the finger and forceps after partial dilatation of the cervix. In February, under chloroform, Dr. Barnes proceeded to empty the uterus. As the hand could not be got through the uterus, Dr. Barnes extracted the foetus with his craniotomy forceps. The fetus was a compressed mass, bones emerging in the surface, the fleshy part greasy, soft, and putrid. It presented the appearance of having reached the eighth or ninth month...
Page 198 - ... of the elbow-joint showed ossification resembling a development of at least sixteen or seventeen years of age. Reviewing the literature, Beekman says that the symptoms of precocious maturity in the female are the early onset of the changes due to puberty. The changes manifested are both anatomical and functional, but the mental development does not keep pace with the somatic. Abnormal development in children associated with tumors (" hypernephromas ") springing from the cortex of the adrenal...