The Puerperal Diseases (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. 1874 Excerpt: ...by Professor Jancway, October 20th: "Exterior.--Small bed-sores on the nates. "Brain.--Right corpus striatum, for the most part, of a dirty "Lungs.--Considerable serum in the pleural cavities. Lower lobes compressed; upper lobes cedematous. No infarctions. "Heart.--Normal size. Right cavities normal, and contain partly red and partly white post-mortem clots. Aortic valves normal. Left ventricle is filled with reddish coagula. Mitral orifice almost completely obstructed by a mass of vegetations, adhering to the valves on the auricular surface. The posterior leaf is thickened and a linear rupture exists, half an inch above the border. Around this is a mass of soft vegetations, through the centre of which and the ruptured valve, the blood flowed. "Zitver.--Large and congested. "/Spleen.--Twice the usual size, with a large, recent infarction, the artery of supply at this point being obstructed by coagula. "Kidneys.--Exhibit several infarctions, some recent and red, arteries varying in color from white to yellow. "Peritonceum, stomach, intestines, uterus, ovaries, and ovarian veins, all normal." In a recent excellent treatise on apoplexy, by Lidell, you will find the reports of ten cases of cerebral embolism, but not one occurred in a puerperal woman; and the only case published by wiiters on this disease, which I now recall, is the one that occurred in the practice of Dr. Burrows, which I have quoted from Sir James Simpson. ' But, as I have now added three, all of which have occurred in this city within the past three years, I suspect that the reason why more cases have not been published is found in the fact, that the attention of obstetricians has not been directed to the study of this lesion. Special writers on th...