Contributions to Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hysterophor answers better the requisites of a good pessary than any other. I, therefore, ask practitioners to give it a fair trial. I do not mean to buy a hysterophor, and sell it to the next woman with prolapsus uteri, but after carefully selecting the case, in which nothing but a good pessary will give...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hysterophor answers better the requisites of a good pessary than any other. I, therefore, ask practitioners to give it a fair trial. I do not mean to buy a hysterophor, and sell it to the next woman with prolapsus uteri, but after carefully selecting the case, in which nothing but a good pessary will give sufficient satisfaction, let the different sizes be tested, until the proper instrument is found. ARTICLE IV. A Contribution to the Palhogenesis of Uterine Polypi. By E. m NOEGGERATH, M.D. Mrs. Fischer, of New York, apparently a healthy woman, was delivered on the 12th of July, 1858, of a strong, living child, after a short and easy labor. She was attended by Dr. Rupprecht, to whom I am indebted for the history of this case. Soon after the child was born, the placenta was found lying in the vagina, near the os extcrnum, and removed without the least difficulty. The doctor left in about an hour, but was scarcely at home, when he was summoned back to the patient in haste, as the woman was swimming in blood. On his arrival, the haemorrhage had already ceased spontaneously, the uterus was found well contracted, and as nothing seemed to indicate any farther apprehension, the patient was quieted, and stimulating drinks ordered to be taken. During the following days everything proceeded as well as could be expected, secretion of milk and lochial discharge in the best condition. At about'the ninth day after this, the woman remarked another show of blood, which, however, did not seem to be serious enough, to call for actual treatment. A strengthening diet, combined with the use of tonics, was recommended, and successfully so, as the discharge diminished, while the patient was gaining strength. But this condition did not last very long. After a lapse of four days, the...