The Medical Advance Volume 45 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...mind lethargic, indifferent. as if life was ebbing away and nearly gone; lochial dis charges scanty, but the most penetrating odor filled the entire house; tlesh very tender, sore, in pain but could not define it; had been getting worse for eighteen hours. The sinking vitality was my key note, corroborated by others. I gave Kali phos. cm. one dose. In three hours improvement, in six hours the odor disappeared; patient cleaned up and house ventilated; an hour more took generous nourishment, slept well during the night and had a good breakfast next morning and made a rapid recovery. This case might be called blood poisoning, but I did not make a mistake in diagnosis. I treated it by the totality of symptoms, and it is one of the accidents that occur when the remedy is properly used that is homeopathic to the totality of the symptoms in the case. Allow me to recommend a judicious consideration of the use of Kali Phos. in such emergencies before calling a surgeon. THE INDUCTION 0F ABORTION. IS IT JUSTIFIABLE, AND IF S0, WHEN. BY H. H. BAKER, M. D., Chicago. The subject of this paper was chosen because it is a question whose gravity far exceeds the attention given it by the medical profession, and in reference to which too many physicians have very lax or at least very flexible principles. The widespread knowledge of methods of abortion among the laity, the ease with which even reputable physicians are made subservient to the flimsy excuses of women; the-astounding increase of the practice; and the demoralizing efiects upon the individual, the family, society and the nation make it a question of paramount interest. I have found very little written upon it, especially the phase of the question which seems uppermost in my mind, i. e.--the moral...