American Medical Journal (Volume 3) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1875. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... necessary to induce premature labor. Dr Copeman dilated the os uteri with his finger, but, not having any proper instrument, he did not succeed in rupturing the membrane. The sickness, however, ceased, the patient went to the full period, was delivered of a healthy child, and made a good recovery. He has adopted the same method since, at the second month, and in the eighth month, with perfect success. In these cases he has found the external os puckered, and takes care to make it smooth as well as to dilate it.--Philadelphia Medical Times. Pathognomonic Sign of luxation of the Humerus. Prof. Dugas, some years ago, described in the American Medical Association a new method of diagnosis in luxation of the shoulderjoint. The subject has been recently revived in the Nashville Medical Journal, which gives the following description: "If the fingers of the injured limb can be placed by the patient or by the surgeon upon the sound shoulder while the elbow touches the thorax, there can be no dislocation; and if this cannot be done, there must be a dislocation. In other words, it is physically impossible to bring the elbow in contact with the sternum or front of the thorax if there be a dislocation; and the inability to do this is proof positive of the existence of dislocation, inasmuch as no other injury of the shoulderjoint can induce this inability."--Philadelphia Medical Times. Enuresis Nocturna.--By W. O. Blaisdell, M.D. In my clinical report of the treatment of enuresis nocftirna in the May number of the Observer, in which I prescribed squilla, causticum and sittz baths, you ask "what were the special indications for squilla? What for causticum? Why were both given? Why the sittz baths? And will he tell us which cured? Has he tested nitrate uranium in this disease?" In...