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. 1914 Excerpt: ...is found within the womb. Sudden and often fatal shock may follow the emptying of the uterus, and patients may die of exhaustion or pulmonary embolism. The necessity for manipulation and the hemorrhage expose the patient to added risk of infection. Diagnosis.--When a pregnant patient complains of pain in the uterus and ...
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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. 1914 Excerpt: ...is found within the womb. Sudden and often fatal shock may follow the emptying of the uterus, and patients may die of exhaustion or pulmonary embolism. The necessity for manipulation and the hemorrhage expose the patient to added risk of infection. Diagnosis.--When a pregnant patient complains of pain in the uterus and abdomen with slowly but steadily rising pulse and with some vaginal discharge of blood, accidental separation of the normally implanted placenta may be suspected. The character of the hemorrhage is of practical importance, for in accidental separation the blood is rarely bright in color, but dark and sometimes coffee-ground in appearance. As hemorrhage slowly but gradually increases the mother's pulse becomes more rapid, weak and compressible, she complains of air hunger and is restless, th" "7 uterus which has been painful gradually relaxes, and the tone of the uterine muscle is completely lost. Patients may die undelivered, or perish soon after birth from exhaustion and acute anemia. The differential diagnosis between placenta pravia and accidental separation of the normally implanted placenta has already been given. In early gestation many cases of abortion result from this accident and confusion in diagnosis might arise between this condition and ectopic gestation. Treatment.--If such cases are left without interference and the woman be healthy, and but slight separation has occurred as the result of mechanical causes, if the patient be put at absolute rest separation and hemorrhage may cease and pregnancy may go on to full term. It is rare, however, for all the conditions necessary for this result to be present. When the physician is summoned to such a case and finds the uterus not very tender, the pulse and temperature but lit...
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Very Good. Original black cloth, approximately 5 x 7 5/8 inches, index, 478 pp, well illustrated with black and white drawings + one plate. Hardcover, very good, no dustjacket. Corners bumped, faint mottling on cloth, a few white drop marks, spine moderately faded, 1/16th inch fraying at head and foot of spine, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Only 1 copy of this edition on OCLC Medicine; history of medicine.
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