The Indian Medical Gazette Volume 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...to separate or rupture the membranes, or trust to the irritating properties of the plumbagin, probably the latter, as the twig is left in contact with the uterus until pains come on; but inexpert operators)--often the unfortunate women themselves--frequently inflict fatal injuries on the womb. Honorary Surgeon H. F. Thomson found the uterus of a woman aged 35 transfixed with a piece of Lit Chitra stick which had caused abortion and much inflammation. Surgeon B. (i. Mathew of Midnapur found an aperture at the juncture of the cervix and fundus uteri posteriorly. The womb was enlarged and lined with bloody muous and broken down decidua The pelvic cavity filled with yellowish fluid. Lui Chitra is assigned as the probable means used. Hospital Assistant Borodnkanth Sen of Bharddak, a sub-division of Balasor, gives a cose where abortion was caused by medicines and the introduction of a stick 12 fingers breadth long. Subject a female Hindu, aged 20. "Peritoneum congested, especially the uart over tbe uterus; stomach, intestines, and liver congested; pleen enlarged-ami congested; kidneys congested; no marks of violence on the external organs of generation, but tbe passage of the vaginal canal larger than usual. Labia minora lacerated; uterus, ovaries, and Fallopian tubes congested Uterus distended, about 4 j inches in length; one laoerated wound on the neck of uterns. Internal coat of ntenu sloughy. From the above circumstances it appears the woman was pregnant, and that abortion may have been caused by violence, from the effect of which she had an attack of puerperal peritonitis which caused her death." Mi-Lyons remarks that the stick was probably Lai Chitra which is " the most common mode of procuring abortion not only in Orissa, but in India ...