The Liverpool and Manchester Medical and Surgical Reports, Volume 3

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1875
 

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Page 221 - Let it be carefully recollected at the same time, that so long as the head advances EVER so SLOWLY, the patient's pulse continues good, the abdomen free from pain on pressure, and no obstruction to the removal of urine, interference should not be attempted, unless the child be dead.
Page 220 - It should be considered more in the light of an aid to the pains, than the forceps, and more dependent on them for success, consequently, more limited in its utility. In this view it is a subordinate instrument, in so far as it is used in milder cases of arrest, which perhaps might, ultimately, have been terminated by the natural efforts, but to which, it might not have been prudent, longer to have trusted.
Page 51 - So long as otorrhoea [discharge from the ear] is present, we never can tell how, when or where it will end, or what it may lead to.
Page 65 - Commission all the things we are doing — the various, bills, the various assignments — and get their advice as to what we should do and what we should not do." Lifetime span of the Commission The House report says, "Not all of the work that can be imagined or possibly even all of the most important work can be accomplished by the Commission during the next 17 months. But this period is, in the subcommittee's view, sufficient to permit all that can be realistically...
Page 154 - The English are in the habit of stuffing their babies with spoon-meat almost from birth;* while the Scotch, excepting in cases where the mother is delicate or the child is out nursing, wisely give nothing excepting the mother's milk till the child begins to cut its teeth. The English practice occasioned the death by convulsions of 23,198 children under one year of age during the year 1868, out of 786,858 births ; in other words, caused one death from convulsions in every 34 of the children born...
Page 52 - And there can be little doubt, I think, that the mortality at least from scarlatina might be appreciably diminished by treatment directed to the ear.
Page 221 - ... time for safe and effectual interference. No intelligent practitioner would wait in cases where the labour throes cease to have any influence in advancing the delivery of the head, if the infant be within reach of the forceps, till there be ' heat or tenderness of the passages,' and still less till ' the patient's strength be much exhausted.
Page 7 - ... any special disease, have in succession four, five, six, or more children, every one of which, almost from birth, evinces great delicacy of constitution. They are invariably anaemic, they are almost equally invariably ailing from something, but you cannot possibly foretell whether that something will be gastric disorder, mesenteric disease, ordinary abscess, or anything else.
Page 34 - ... by placing a pad over the blade of the scapula below its spine, and then...

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