Gallstones during pregnancy and the puerperium / by Reuben Peterson.

  • Peterson, Reuben, 1862-1942.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Gallstones during pregnancy and the puerperium / by Reuben Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from the Transactions of the American Gynecological Society, 1910 ] GALLSTONES DUEING PKEGNANCY AND THE PUEEPEEIUM. By Reuben Peterson, M.D., Ann Arhor, Mich. My interest has been recently aroused in the question of gallstones as a complication of pregnancy and the puer- perium by the following case, which, on account of the comparative rarity of the condition, will be reported in detail. Mrs. D. M., aged twenty-seven years, American, was referred to the surgical clinic of the University of Mich- igan Hospital by Dr. A. N. Howe, of Boyne Falls, Mich- igan, February 12, 1910. The patient has always been a healthy, hard-working woman with the exception of an attack of pneumonia last winter. Her menstrual periods have been regular, of the twenty-eight-day type, and with- out pain. She has been married twice, has had six abor- tions and one full-term child, which lived only a short time after its birth. She is now six months pregnant, having menstruated for the last time August 16th. Life was felt the latter part of December. Present Trouble. Four weeks ago while out walking the patient was suddenly seized with a cramp-like pain in the right side, situated more in the back along the lower rib border. The pain was so severe as to prevent her straightening up, and she had to be helped to. the house. That night she became jaundiced. The jaundice has