Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society (Volume 21) (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. 1896. Excerpt: ... Dr Halliday Croom said he thought Dr Elder's paper most interesting. He had not met with many cases of peripheral neuritis during pregnancy, and he had never considered the condition aa due to the gravid state. In all cases of neuritis he suspected alcohol as the cause, and generally he succeeded in discovering it. He observed that Dr Elder's cases were both multipara. He was sure the Society was very much indebted to Dr Elder for bringing before it this very interesting subject. Dr Elder, after thanking the Society for the way it had received his paper, referred to the causal relation of pregnancy to peripheral neuritis. The number of cases of neuritis in pregnancy reported were few, because neuritis was comparatively rare in females as compared with males, and because cases where a distinct cause apart from pregnancy, e.g., alcohol, was present, were not likely to be reported. That in many of the cases pregnancy was the exciting cause of the neuritis seemed to him to be beyond question, for as soon as the pregnancy ceased there was at once au amelioration. He did not mean by saying that there were casea of "neuritis of pregnancy," that a normal pregnancy could cause neuritis; but that apparently owing to some defect iu the excretion of the increased waste products then in the system, not accompanied by any definite lesion at present discoverable in the excretory organs (or by derangement of the gastro-intestinal tract), pregnancy was the chief factor in the causation of some cases of peripheral neuritis; and he was of opinion that such cases, in a mild form, were by no means rare. There were so many possible causes of peripheral neuritis that it was extremely difficult to eliminate them all, but so far as was possible to him he had done so in the cases ...

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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. 1896. Excerpt: ... Dr Halliday Croom said he thought Dr Elder's paper most interesting. He had not met with many cases of peripheral neuritis during pregnancy, and he had never considered the condition aa due to the gravid state. In all cases of neuritis he suspected alcohol as the cause, and generally he succeeded in discovering it. He observed that Dr Elder's cases were both multipara. He was sure the Society was very much indebted to Dr Elder for bringing before it this very interesting subject. Dr Elder, after thanking the Society for the way it had received his paper, referred to the causal relation of pregnancy to peripheral neuritis. The number of cases of neuritis in pregnancy reported were few, because neuritis was comparatively rare in females as compared with males, and because cases where a distinct cause apart from pregnancy, e.g., alcohol, was present, were not likely to be reported. That in many of the cases pregnancy was the exciting cause of the neuritis seemed to him to be beyond question, for as soon as the pregnancy ceased there was at once au amelioration. He did not mean by saying that there were casea of "neuritis of pregnancy," that a normal pregnancy could cause neuritis; but that apparently owing to some defect iu the excretion of the increased waste products then in the system, not accompanied by any definite lesion at present discoverable in the excretory organs (or by derangement of the gastro-intestinal tract), pregnancy was the chief factor in the causation of some cases of peripheral neuritis; and he was of opinion that such cases, in a mild form, were by no means rare. There were so many possible causes of peripheral neuritis that it was extremely difficult to eliminate them all, but so far as was possible to him he had done so in the cases ...

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February 2012

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978-1-154-30202-8

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