The pathology and treatment of childbed : a treatise for physicians and students. ... From the second German edition with many additional notes by the author / by Dr. F. Winckel; translated by James R. Chadwick.

Date:: 1876

Credit: The pathology and treatment of childbed : a treatise for physicians and students. ... From the second German edition with many additional notes by the author / by Dr. F. Winckel; translated by James R. Chadwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$J 458 MENTAL AFFECTIONS V. Frauque, Wurzburger Med. Zeit- schrift. Bcl. iy. Heft 5 and 6. Archibald Hall, London Obstetrical Society Transactions, vol. iv. pn. 222-228. Bibergeil, Casper’s Wochenschrift, No. 29, 1844. Tuke, Edinb. Medical Journal, 1865, May and June 1867. Kiwiscb, Krankheiten der Wbchner- innen, ii. pp. 228-261. Berndt, Jr., 1. c., pp. 431-486. OF LYING-IN WOMEN, G. G. P. Hauck’s Geburtsliiilflicbe Praxis. Berlin, 1851, p. 234. Leubuscber, Verbandlungen der Ber- liner Geburtsbiilflicben Gesellscbaft. Bd. iii. pp. 94-122. E. Leyden, Bericbt, 1. c., pp. 80-87. H. Fischer, Bericbt, 1. c., pp. 70, 83, and 90. J. T. Simpson, Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women. Puerperal Mania. Philadelphia, 1863, pp. 437 RECORD OF CASES. No. 46. A case illustrating symptomatic mania., accompanying 2)hlegmonoiis metritis and lym2)hatic thrombosis. Peritonitis. M. J., 32 years old ; first delivery ; ■\vas perfectly well the first two days of childbed ; in the night of the 2d and 3d da}'s rigor and dis- tress, together with abdominal distension and pain. Peritonitis. On 4th morning:— Headache; eold compresses ; child wasweaned. Had scarcely sle])t at all during the night owing to the severe and painful eough and diarrhoea which had 8(‘t in. At about midday the patient suddenly began to scream aloud ; cried for helj); cuniplained of great distress, afiirming she was about to die, and must have assistance; the compresses and clothes upon her abdomen were thrown off. She grasped her abdomen with force in order to show that this part was no longer sensitive, and was with ditliculty held in bed, etc. On being spoken to she gradually became quieter. Temp. Pulse. Kosp. Lst (lay. P. M. 100.6° 88 24 2(1 (lay. A. M. 99.7 76 20 P. M. 100.4 80 24 3(1 (lay. A. M. 105.3 136 28 P. M. 104.7 120 32 4th (lay. A. M. 104.1 128 82 P. M. 103.1 140 38 5lh (lay. A. M. 104.5 136 36 Plcuritis (lextra P. M. 101.8 120 32 6th (lay. A. -M. 103.3 146 32 P. M. 104.2 140 36 No. 47. Mania jocrsecutoria puerjieralis. R. II., 37 years old, of a liealthy family. Her father died, she knows not why, five years ago; Iter mother and three brothers and sisters are still living,and in good health. When a child, and ]ierfectly healthy, she said she had struck herself in the forehead with a flail, thereby inflicting a trifling wound of the integument, and was sure she had not lost conscious- ness. When twenty-one years old she had an epileptic attack at the first appearance of menstruation, but no subsequent recurrence of the trouble. Since then she had always men- struated irregularly, and, as a rule, not at all in the summer months; at the same time she suffered greatly from headaches, but in different parts of the head. Her father, she said, was always very stern in his treatment of her, so that she had a great dread of him. She therefore acted as nurse for six$