Lectures on obstetric operations : including the treatment of hæmorrhage, and forming a guide to the management of difficult labour / by Robert Barnes.

  • Robert Barnes
Date:
1886
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Credit: Lectures on obstetric operations : including the treatment of hæmorrhage, and forming a guide to the management of difficult labour / by Robert Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    LECTURE XXIV. PAGK The Cfesarian Section—The Indications for—The Moral Aspect of the Operation as between Mother and Child—The Conditions that render the Operation Necessary—Question between Ci^jsarian Section and Turning in Dying and Dead Women to Save the Child—The Time to Select for the Operation— Preparation for Operating—The Operation—The Dangers Attending it, and the PrognOvsis—Symphysiotomy ... ... .., ... ...345 LECTURE XXV. The Induction of Premature Labour—The Moral Bearing of the Operation—The Fitness of the System and of the Genital Organs for Premature Labour— The Insufficiency of Simply Provocative Means—Two Stages of Prematm'e Labour Artificially Induced : The Provocative ; The Accelerative—Discus- sion of the Various Provocative Agents : Danger of the Douche—Action of the Various Dilators—The Mode of Proceeding—Provocation Overnight— Acceleration and Conclusion of Labour Next Day—Description of Cases Demanding Induction of Labour—Question of Starving the Mother—Mode of Determining Epoch of Gestation—Proceeding in Contracted Pelvis or other Mechanical Obstructions—In Cases of Urgent Distress of Mother, as Convulsions, Heart Disease, Phthisis—In Cases where the Child is Dead— Missed Labour—Care of Child when Born Alive ... ... ... ... 365 LECTURE XXVL Uterine Hsemorrhage—Varieties : Classification of—From Abortion—Causes of Abortion: Maternal, Ovuline, and Foetal—Course and Symptoms of Abortion —Treatment—The Placental Polypus—The Blood-Polypus—The Plug— Hot Water—Perchloride of Iron—Prophylaxis—Hydatidiform Degeneration of the Ovum ... ... ... 386 LECTURE XXVIL Placenta Prsevia—Historical References : Mauriceau, Portal, Levret, and Rigby— Modern Doctrines expressed by Denman, Ingleby, Churchill, and Sim]>son —'The Old and the Author's Theories of the Cause of Hiemorrhage in Placenta Prsevia—The Practice of Forced Delivery, Dangers of—Theory of Placental Source of Haemorrhage, and Method of Totally Detaching the Placenta— The Course, Symptoms, and Prognosis of Placenta Prsevia—The Author's Theory of Placenta Prtevia, and Treatment—The Plug—Puncture of the Membranes—Detachment of Placenta from Cervical Zone—Dilatation of Cervix by Water-Pressure—Delivery—Series of Physiological Propositions in reference to Placenta Prrevia—Series of Therapeutical Propositions—The so-called Accidental Hemorrhage ... ... ... ... ... ... 398 LECTURE XXVIIL Hsemorrhage after the Birth of the Child—Cases in which the Placenta is Retained —Consequences of Retention of Placenta—The Prophylaxis of Hsemorrhage— Cases after the Removal of the Placenta—Secondary Haemorrhage—^Causes of Retention of Placenta—Mode of Conducting Third Stage of Labour— Encysted or Incarcerated Placenta—Apparent Encystment from Growth in One Horn of a Tw^o-Horned Uterus—Hour-Glass Contraction—Means of Eff'ecting Detachment and Expulsion of Placenta—Adhesion of the Placenta —Causes—Treatment—Placenta Succenturiata—Placenta Duplex—Placenta Velamentosa ... ... ... ... ... .., .. 428