Transactions, Volume 59American Medical Association. Section of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, American Medical Association. Section on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women American Medical Association Press, 1908 - Gynecology |
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Page 112 - ... apart around the curve, and for two inches beyond at each side. This rolling in of the muscular band made a rib of firm muscular tissue, which materially increased the size of the curve, and greatly strengthened it. The scarification of the sutured surfaces of the meso-sigmoid assured us of an adhesive surface of over 18 square inches, and yet allowed perfect motility of the organ.
Page 232 - God is my witness, and men are not ignorant of it, that I have labored more than forty years to throw light on the art of surgery and bring it to perfection. And in this...
Page 163 - Surely there is nothing in the whole range of surgery more ironical than a woman spending twenty or even thirty years of her life as a chronic invalid on account of a uterine fibroid, in the expectation that at the menopause she will be restored to health and begin a new life, and then to realize that far from this being fulfilled, the fibroid becomes necrotic, extruded or septic, and places her life in the gravest peril, and that she may die in spite of surgical intervention.
Page 217 - Not more than 5 per cent, of the victims of ectopic pregnancy die at the time of rupture, whereas after the immediate operation in cases of ectopic gestation in 1,176 cases in 25 clinics the mortality was 8 per cent.
Page 369 - The meeting was called to order at 9 am by the Chairman. Dr. A. Ernest Gallant, New York, read a paper entitled "The Corset for Movable Kidney and Associated Visceral Ptoses.
Page 244 - ... the purpose of keeping their sides in contact, were dissolved by the fluids discharged from the wound, it appeared to me that ligatures might be made of leather, or of some other animal substance, with which the sides of a blood-vessel could be compressed for a sufficient time to prevent hemorrhage; that such ligatures would be dissolved after a few days, and would be evacuated with the discharge from the cavity of the wound.
Page 15 - In four-fifths of the states and territories the age of the foetus is immaterial. " Question 4. — What is the effect of death of the woman operated on as to charge and penalty? " Answer. — If the death of the woman results from the operation, in eighteen states and territories out of fifty-one the crime is murder and the punishment is death or imprisonment for life. In six states it is murder in the second degree, and the penalty is imprisonment for life or for a term of not less than three years....
Page 219 - The sudden removal of a large quantity of recently accumulated fluid in the abdomen, before the other vessels have had time to adapt themselves to the altered mechanical conditions, is dangerous and may be followed by fatal syncope.
Page 19 - I have come to the conclusion that the public does not want, the profession does not want, the women in particular do not want, any aggressive campaign against the crime of abortion.
Page 84 - ... individual cases be carried too far, and it is, in my opinion, largely responsible for the effects of delayed chloroform poisoning in exceptional cases. Such effects could in all probability be completely prevented if, instead of withholding food, particular care was taken that the patient had always a very nutritious and easily digestible meal, well sweetened, two or three hours before operation.