Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Volume 4Longmans, Green and Company, 1813 - Medicine |
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abdomen abscess acetabulum adhesive admitted affected afterwards albumen aneurism anterior chamber appearance aqueous humor artery blood body bone brane capsule carious cartilage cataract cause cavity circumstances coagulable coagulable lymph colour complaint consequence considerable continued cornea death degree discharged disease dissection dropsy effusion evacuation examining external extravasation eyeball femoral artery femur fever fibres fluid frequent George's Hospital head inch incision inflammation injection intestines iris joint knee labour laudanum lens ligaments ligature minute morbid mortality mucous muriate muscles muscular natural nearly observed opacity opake operation ophthalmia orifice oxymuriate of mercury pain patient placenta portion posterior produced pulse pupil pylorus quantity Sir Gilbert Blane slight soft stomach substance surface Surgeon swelling symptoms synovial membrane takes place texture tion transparent tumor ulceration uncoagulable matter uterus vascularity veins vessels villous coat whole womb wound
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Page 340 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.
Page 7 - ... is actually unknown to the native practitioners, who in that point of view religiously abstain from its use, considering it, with horror, as one of the poisons which foreigners madly wield...
Page 220 - He complained of pain and tendernesss in the shoulder, and a very slight degree of swelling was observable; but his principal disease was a fever resembling typhus in its character, of which he died in a few days after his admission. On inspecting the body, about half an ounce of thin pus was found in the shoulder-joint. The synovial membrane bore marks of general inflammation; and in one spot, where it was reflected over the neck of the os brachii, it was destroyed by alteration for about the extent...
Page 355 - ... expelling the child, and in constringing the uterine vessels ; by the time that the child is expelled, the vessels of the fundus are greatly diminished in diameter. Further, the place and strength of these muscles being perfectly regular and uniform, their action must have the effect of equally drawing the surface of the uterus, which is in correspondence with the margin of the placenta...
Page 356 - In such circumstances of the attachment of the placenta, the retraction on the lower part of the womb being to a greater extent than the fundus, will account for the too early separation of that margin of the placenta which stretches towards the orifice, and also for the haemorrhage which is a consequence of this partial separation ; but in progress of the labour, and after the discharge of the waters, the more powerful efforts of the uterus draw the muscular fibres more closely around the bloodvessels,...
Page 337 - I mean the outermost layer of fibres which covers the tipper segment of the gravid uterus. The fibres arise from the round ligaments: and, regularly diverging, spread over the fundus, until they unite and form the outermost stratum of the muscular substance of the uterus. The round ligaments of the womb have been considered as useful in directing the ascent of the uterus during gestation ; so as to throw it before the floating viscera of the abdomen : but, in truth...
Page 436 - An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines, illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds and strangulated hernia.
Page 354 - ... as to close the vessels ; that where Nature has provided for the attachment of the placenta, there the broken vessels are guarded by the provision of the surrounding muscular texture ; but we know also that during this contraction of the superior part of the womb, the lower part dilates and relaxes. Now if the contraction of the womb be essential to the safety of the mother, what will be the effect of the attachment of the placenta to a part of the womb which must relax during the labour ! Every...
Page 212 - Cases occasionally occur, in which a joint is swollen from a preternatural quantity of fluid collected in its cavity, without pain or inflammation. This may be supposed to arise, either from a diminished action of the absorbents, or an increased action of the secreting vessels. The disease may be compared to the dropsy of the peritonaeum, or pleura, and it has not improperly been designated by the terms hydrops articuli.
Page 395 - Yelloly) is entirely venous, and depends on a power capable of being exercised on the artery itself at the close of life, which carries on the blood to the veins, after the further supply of fresh blood from the heart is stopped.