This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...or that modified mucous membrane which has borne and sustained the ovum up to the time of its maturity, which does not come away with the placenta, loses its vitality, becomes broken down, and is discharged during the first week or two of the puerperal period. I have seen the whole of the internal surface of the uterus ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...or that modified mucous membrane which has borne and sustained the ovum up to the time of its maturity, which does not come away with the placenta, loses its vitality, becomes broken down, and is discharged during the first week or two of the puerperal period. I have seen the whole of the internal surface of the uterus covered with the bloody exudation thus formed, and the uterus may be found in every stage of progress of throwing off the decidua, from the organ stndded with patches of decidua, or completely covered with this membrane, to the perfectly smooth internal uterns, from which the whole of the decidua has been detached; and I look upon this exfoliative shedding of the mucous membrane or uterine decidua, as in many respects analogous to the change which takes place in the uterine mucous membrane at the catamenial periods, and the loehial and menstrual discharges appear to be essentially the same, except that the loehial flow is more profuse than the menstrual. In animals, there is no loehial discharge in the sense in which this discharge occurs in the human subject, because the placental cotyledons, or that portion of the Elacenta which fulfils the function of the decidua in the uman subject, are permanent. No doubt the basement or germinal portion of the uterine mucous membrane remains both after the catamenia and the lochia, and produces the new mucous membrane, found after menstruation and parturition. At first the loehial discharge is of the colour of pure blood, mixed occasionally with coagula. It is passed with the greatest readiness during the times of micturition and defecation, or while the uterus is contracting, as in after-pains. After a few days, the sanguineous character of the discharge diminishes, the flow becoming greenish, and freq...
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