Author : New York Obstetrical Society
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458987006
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Book Synopsis Transactions of the New York Obstetrical Society by : New York Obstetrical Society
Download or read book Transactions of the New York Obstetrical Society written by New York Obstetrical Society and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELECTED CASES FROM ONE HUNDRED CONSECUTIVE CONFINEMENTS. By J. G. Hirons, M.D., New York. In submitting without comment the following brief analysis of one hundred consecutive confinements my object is to suggest for discussion the frequent and possibly unnecessary use of both forceps; and ergot in many instances, and the unusual severity of the pain and the tendency to post-partum hemorrhage in those women whose last confinement occurred several years previously. BEFORE PREGNANCY. Of the seventy multiparae twenty had one child; sixteen, two; ten, three; six, four; seven, five; two, six, and two, eight. Fourteen had instrumental deliveries, ten being first and four subsequent confinements. In eight cases forceps were used once; in five, twice, and in two cases in all of their confinements, or three and four times respectively. Five had puerperal fever as indicated by their histories of chills, fever and prolonged illness, and the character of the treatment, viz.: uterine and vaginal irrigation, poultices, etc. The entire number gave evidence of having taken ergot during or after confinement. Five women had had trachelorrhaphy and perineorrhaphy, and three had trachelorrhaphy alone; one had been treated for a sub- serous fibroid the size of an orange attached to the fundus of the uterus, one for procidentia, two for retroversion, and two for retro- version with prolapsed ovaries. Of the thirty primiparae eight had been treated before pregnancy occurred?two for retroversion, one for prolapsed ovary and five for endometritis. DURING PREGNANCY. Ten women were treated with cotton-vaseline tampons from two to four months; two wore retroversion pessaries until the fourth month, and one a cup pessary until the seventh month. In one case of deep unilateral laceration of ...