The midwife's practical directory, or woman's confidential friend, comprising extensive remarks on the various casualties, and forms of disease, preceding, attending and following the period of gestation : with an appendix, the whole designed for the special use of the botanic friends in the United States / by Thomas Hersey.

  • Hersey, Thomas.
Date:
1836
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    pain and irritation of the system that natuially at- tends such operations. 74. Concerning polypus, but few writers have given us much satisfactory information on the sub- ject. Dr. Denman has been more particular than any preceding author we have had an opportunity to consult. He observes that, After a long con- tinuance of the disease, which may not have been suspected, or perhaps mistaken for some other, the tumor has pressed through the vagina and exter- nal orifice; and the stem being too weak, to sus- tain its weight, or to afford nourishment, it has de- cayed and dropped away; or when the polypus has pushed through the external orifice, a ligature has been fixed round the stem, and the polypus been easily and perfectly extirpated. 75. Dr. Francis, in his notes on Denman, men- tions a case that came under his observation, dur- ing the Spring of 1821. On examination, after the decease of the patient, for it was a fatal case, the tumor with its excrescences weighed rather more than one hundred pounds. 76. We were acquainted with one instance of a fungus growth, of irregular size, firm and smooth- ish, though somewhat shrivelled on the surface, protruding,to the amount of several pounds weight. 7