A cyclopaedia of obstetrics, theoretical, practical, historical, biographical, and critical, including the diseases of women and children / [Charles Clay].

  • Clay, Charles, 1801-1893.
Date:
1848
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    Congenital Umbilical Hernia.—At the Medical Society of London, Mr. Hewth shewed a specimen; the child lived four days. The small, and a portion also of the large intestines, were visible in the tumour.—Med. Gaz. Malignant Scarlet Fever.—We refer to our own pages on this subject by J. M. Coley, M.D. Convulsions oe the first Seven Years.—Hr. P. Murphy, at the S. London Medical Society, read an excellent paper, March 30, on this subject. The proximate cause of which, he concluded, was pressure on the brain, either from arterial blood, venous blood, water, or newly-formed solid substance. He regarded convulsions as a salutary effort to eject the pressing matter from the brain, analagous to rigors after a chill. The remote causes are worms, irritant medicines, anaemia, hooping cough, and exanthemata. He doubted dentition as a common cause, for he had often observed the gums lanced without benefit, and other remedies had to be resorted to : toothache in chil¬ dren never produced convulsions. The younger the child the more disposed to convulsions.- [The discussion on this paper elicited nothing but the apparent determination to stick to old rules, whether right or wrong. We agree with the author, that frequently little or no good is effected on convulsions by lancing the gums, even when teething is the esteemed cause,—simply because, w lien once the nervous system is fully excited, it will not immediately be allayed by removing the cause. Often emetics will be far more effective than lancing, as telling more immediately on the nervous system. Still we think the author would have been more strictly correct to have included teething among the causes of convulsions.—Ed.] Functional Paralysis of Children.—See our own pages, by J. M. Coley, M.H. Physiology and Pathology.—Double Uterus and Yagina.—Dr. Huguier presented a woman to the French Academy of Medicine, who became pregnant in one half of the uterus. After delivery, the breast corresponding with that part of the uterus, viz. on the same side only, exhibited signs of lactation.— Cornet. Bend, de VAcad, de Medicine. Artificial Yagina.—Two cases are related by Dr. De Bal, in the Annales et Bullet: de la Societe de Med. de Hand, July, 1845. In cases of occlusion by an incision between the uretha and rectum ; in both cases a large amount of viscid blood was discharged (pent-icp menstrual secretion). The age of both cases was 18. Both recovered. Fibrous Tumour of the Uterus.—Dr. Russell, at the Birmingham Pa¬ thological Society, exhibited a small fibrous tumour of the uterus embedded in its muscular coat, from a woman of middle age and mother of two children, who died from perforation of the stomach, but without any symptoms indica¬ tive of uterine disease.—Prov. Med.jznd Surg. Journal. Induration of the Placenta.—The labour was preceeded by hemorr-- hage, which was renewed after the birth of the child. The placenta wasr adherent to the fundus, and not easily extracted, after which the hemorrhage • ceased. About two inches and a half broad, at one edge was white, udder¬ like, and indurated, and this was the part adherent. It appeared the result I of inflammation.— Prov. Med. and Surg. Journal.