A synoptical guide to the study of obstetrics : being an aid to the student in the class-room, in private study and in preparing for examinations / by Robert Barnes.

  • Robert Barnes
Date:
1883
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Credit: A synoptical guide to the study of obstetrics : being an aid to the student in the class-room, in private study and in preparing for examinations / by Robert Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B. Pathological processes continned from the pr^-gravid state, or grafted upon the gravid state. In either case the disease in its origin, independent of gravidity, becomes modi- fied by the gravidity. 2. The diseases of pathological exaggeration of the gravida are diseases of high nervous and high vascular tension, and the pathological processes originating independently of the gravid process also faU under the influence of the high tension of gravidity. 3. The diseases of puerpery are, on the other hand, diseases of low nervous and vascular tension. 4. The gravid state does not easily tolerate the concurrent course of physiological processes carried to excess, or of grafted pathological processes. 5. Hence abortion is a frequent consequence of disease in the gravida. 6. Abortion, then, is an indication of a system or organ overtaxed, or of disease ; and is a means adopted by nature for relief or cure. That is to say, abortion is often conservative as regards the mother. 7. Gestation evokes latent morbid conditions. 8. Gestation disposes to the generation and aggravation of disease; puerpery to the generation of disease, and increases the susceptibility to the invasion of zymotic or infectious diseases. 9. Gestation is a test of the soundness of the subject. 10. Physiological processes strained to excess do not neces- sarily produce abortion. They may imperil or destroy the mother and child. 11. Salivation, py]:-osis, hydrorrhoea gravidarum, vomiting, diari'hcea, hsemorrhages—as haemoptysis apart from tuberculosis, h£ematemesis, melsena, htematuria, bursting of superficial veins, haemorrhage from cervix uteri and vagina sometimes, by regulating nervous and vascular tension, avert abortion and other evils. 12. Independent morbid processes also do not always lead to abortion. When abortion does not ensue, the morbid pro- ceases already in action are likely to be intensified.
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