Bulletin of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York, Volumes 8-9

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Page 178 - ... representing 16 grams or 250 grains of the drug, with no alarming effects. Whereas by intraspinous injection for the production of anesthesia, or in the treatment of tetanus, Meltzer (6) advises 1 cc of a 25 per cent, solution per 20 pounds of body weight, or about 25 grains for a 130-pound individual, as the safe limit. The injections should be repeated every second or third day according to the course of the Infection as revealed by the temperature chart. The method has now been employed In...
Page 130 - AM, MD Professor of Obstetrics at the Northwestern University Medical School.
Page 81 - What is the interest of $216'80, at 7 per cent., for 1 month ? for 2 months ? 3 mo. ? 4 mo. ? 5 mo. ? 6 mo. ? 7 mo. ? 8 mo. ? 9 mo. ? 10 mo.? 11 mo.?
Page 281 - No. 2 chromic gut, interrupted and about i centimeter apart passed through the uterine peritoneum, close to its cut edge, well out into the muscle and down to but not through the endometrium and out in reverse order on the opposite side. A double turn is taken in the first knot which will then maintain its position without the necessity of its being held by a forceps in the hands of an assistant at the risk of cutting or weakening an important suture with the forceps. The suture is drawn tight enough...
Page 178 - ... than the ordinary saline infusion. The patient experiences a sensation of heat toward the end of the injection, and frequently feels faint, although the pulse usually gains in quality. A small drink of hot whiskey or aromatic spirits of ammonia will steady her. Occasionally the respiration assumes a sighing quality, but no decrease in rate or in depth of the respirations has been observed. It is quite evident that the dangers are not so marked, the drug is not so toxic, when given intravenously,...
Page 178 - The rubber tube of the reservoir with the solution flowing in then rapidly slipped over the shoulder of the needle. The reservoir is held at not more than one foot elevation, which will run in 400 cc of the solution in about twenty minutes. The injection should be made much slower than the ordinary saline infusion. The patient experiences a sensation of heat toward the end of the injection, and frequently feels faint, although the pulse usually gains in quality. A small drink of hot whiskey or aromatic...
Page 282 - Morphine in | grain doses is given by hypodermic injection as needed and the abdominal distention is relieved by a retained rectal tube or by a saline irrigation. Usually the mother nurses her child and at the end of forty-eight hours she is treated as a normal delivery. On the eighth day postpartum, she sits up in a chair and by the twelfth day she is ready to leave the hospital. Several of our patients have insisted upon going home on the tenth day, while others who...
Page 227 - He then places a deep stitch of \"o. 2 chromic catgut at the upper and another at the lower angle of the wound in the uterus and ties them and leaves the ends long. The first assistant now discontinues pressure against the abdominal wall and holds the uterus up by these stitches.
Page 242 - Infant Feeding.— By Clifford G. Grulee, A. M., MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Rush Medical College, Attending Pediatrician to Cook County Hospital.
Page 30 - V, Obstetrics, edited by Joseph B. DeLee, AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics, Northwestern University Medical School, with the collaboration of D.

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