An Account of Some of the Most Important Diseases Peculiar to Women

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Murray, 1829 - 432페이지

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160 페이지 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart shewed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place.
100 페이지 - is not an uncommon appearance in the course of the month, but of that species from which they generally recover. When out of their senses, attended with fever, like paraphrenitis, they will, in all probability die...
236 페이지 - As soon as the ligature was slackened, the pain ceased ; but whenever he attempted to tighten it, the pain and vomiting returned. The ligature was left on, but loose. The patient died about six weeks afterwards, and on opening the body, it was found that the uterus was inverted, and that the ligature had included the inverted portion.
xvi 페이지 - A practitioner opened the body of a woman who had died of puerperal fever, and continued to wear the same clothes. A lady whom he delivered a few days afterwards was attacked with and died of a similar disease ; two more of his lying-in patients, in rapid succession, met with the same fate. Struck by the thought that he might have carried the contagion in his clothes, he instantly changed them, and met with no more cases of the kind.
273 페이지 - A young or middleaged woman, somewhat reduced in flesh and health, almost living on her sofa for months, or even years, from a constant pain in the uterus, which renders her unable to sit up and take exercise. The uterus, on examination, unchanged in structure, but exquisitely tender ; even in the recumbent position always in pain, but subject to great aggravations more or less frequently.
313 페이지 - ... exposed to debilitating causes. The physician finds the child lying on its nurse's lap, unable or unwilling to raise its head, half asleep, one moment opening its eyes, and the next closing them again with a remarkable expression of languor. The tongue is slightly white, the skin is not hot, at times the nurse remarks that it is colder than natural ; in some cases there is at times a slight and transient flush : the...
57 페이지 - I have mentioned. There seemed to be nothing dangerous in this form of disease, provided the nature of it was not mistaken, and improper remedies not used; yet it so strikingly resembled peritoneal inflammation, that it was invariably taken for it by the practitioners who witnessed it...
324 페이지 - Seeds, of Edinburgh, found that in animals bled to death, whether from veins or arteries, there was found more or less of serous effusion within the head, and Dr. Kelly thus expresses himself. " If, instead of bleeding usque ad mortem, we were to bleed animals more sparingly and repeatedly, I have no doubt that we should succeed in draining the brain of a much larger quantity of its red blood ; but in. such experiments we shall, I think, find a larger effusion of serum.
370 페이지 - ... dormant — then appear — rage for a time — and then subside — like epidemic diseases. Sydenham, who lived before the time of inoculation and vaccination, describes the smallpox as at one time appearing rarely, or not at all ; then beginning to show itself at the approach of the vernal equinox ; spreading more and more every day, becoming epidemic about autumn, abating on the coming on of winter, returning again in the following spring, and prevailing till checked by the subsequent winter....
144 페이지 - Objects which have had frequent access to the mind seem to have a double power over it : viz. they not only produce the natural effect of a single application, but they revive the traces or recollections of their former impressions.

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