Cleveland Medical Gazette Volume 3 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Obstetrical Auscultation. B. F. EICHARDSON, M.D., AND HIS CRITICISM: A EKPLT BY J. H, TATE, M.D. Messrs. Editors: ?In the December number of your journal I find that the author of a critique has again made his appearance. We notice, however, a marked change from the disdainful condescension which characterized his first effusion: the "short-gun literature " has evidently taken effect, and our some time eagle has suddenly dropt from his lofty hight, while now, as he floats on crippled wing, we perceive it was only a buzzard that was sporting in the upper sky. In regard to our first case of auscultation he has now but a word or two to say, and from these we may gather that in his circle of practice he has found the rule established, that a physician is never to be left in a room with a female patient, without the presence of a third person. In commencing a discussion of the case of ruptured uterus, he at once falls into the error of supposing that we had ever imagined it necessary to prove by authorities that it was a case of that nature. We attempted nothing of the kind, and only quoted Smith to show that the systems of rupture were sometimes so obscure that a physician' might be for a few minutes in the room with a patient, might make an examination per vaginam, and yet not detect a rupture when one existed. Noy. as the quotation proved the point, we are not surprised that our critic was dissatisfied with the extract. The facts which we mentioned, as occurring in the case, and especially that the practitioner who introduced his hand into the abdominal cavity had declared it was a rupture, are sufficient to satisfy all fair- minded men; but there is a critic who, it appears, has a grudge of three and a half years' standing to gratify, who, of course, will not be s...