On the diseases peculiar to females

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第 221 頁 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
第 243 頁 - ... circulation. 6. Or the contractions may be so powerful as to force the child at once into the world, causing any or all of the lacerations of the soft parts of the mother. 7. The life of the child may be endangered, also, through absorption of the essential oil of ergot. 8. If given after the birth of the child, and before the expulsion of the placenta and membranes, it may prevent the removal of the latter, and thus be indirectly a cause of puerperal septicaemia.
第 122 頁 - ... tubes, which at the beginning of the operation were separate, are now fixed together as one instrument. By drawing the ends of the ligatures out at the lower external ends of the tubes, and then twisting and tying them on a part of the instrument which projects from the lower rings, the loop round the stalk is thereby tightened, and, like a silk thread round a wart, causes it to die and fall off.
第 228 頁 - Л very thin piece of whalebone, one-third of an inch broad, is inserted, so that when the binder is applied, it runs straight down the middle of the abdomen from the thorax to the pelvis. A bandage such as this fits easily, without any unequal pressure when drawn tight; never shifts its place when made well, and properly applied ; and effectually accomplishes the object for which it is intended. I have employed it with several ladies who had been in the habit of using the common kind, and they invariably...
第 85 頁 - ... injected into the wound. When we examine the part immediately after death, we find that the poison has completely destroyed the red colour of the blood, and not only of this, but for two inches all round the puncture, the muscular fibres, and even the cellular substance are as black as if they had been for hours in a state of complete mortification.
第 175 頁 - Or rather, is it not demonstrable that of some of them, at all events, inflammatory action is an essential attribute ? And yet we find that such painful states, such demonstrably inflammatory affections, may be sustained for many years without producing malignant disorganization of structure. The limits subsisting between the phenomena respectively of irritation and inflammation, are not yet established with sufficient precision to enable us to determine with perfect confidence under which of these...
第 115 頁 - The tumour was punctured, and ten or twelve pounds of purulent, foetid, und greenish fluid, escaped through the canula. Twenty days after, a second puncture was made, which gave issue to some matter, and the cavity was then injected with a decoction of plantain and red rose leaves, with a little wine. Acute pain was endured while the injection remained in the cyst. After its entire discharge, the surgeon kneaded the cyst with his fingers, in order to determine its inflammation.
第 182 頁 - Are directly strengthening chalybeates. They augment the energy of the vital functions, exerting a powerful influence over the digestive, assimilative, sanguiferous, and nervous systems. They prove salutary in the debility consequent upon severe diseases, violent bodily or mental exertion, and much loss of blood, as after menorrhagia and...
第 181 頁 - Belongs to the class of aperient, alterative, and deobstruent mineral waters. It is less exciting and more aperient than the Carlsbad, more aperient and deobstruent than the Kreuzbrunnen. Like these, it cleanses the mucous membranes of the alimentary canal and restores their healthy secretion, but is more efficient in expelling worms and preventing their formation. It promotes absorption and corrects local congestions ; it is therefore useful in removing visceral obstructions and enlargements, and...
第 119 頁 - In polypus of the fundus the stalk is completely encircled by the neck of the uterus, and if the finger can be introduced into the orifice, it passes easily round between the stalk of the polypus and the encircling neck. " In polypus of the neck the finger cannot be passed quite round the stalk ; it may be passed partly round it, but it is stopped when it comes to that part where it is attached to the neck, the stalk is only »emi-circled by the neck.

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