The diseases of the foetus in utero : not including malformations; with an outline of foetal development.

  • Madge, Henry.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The diseases of the foetus in utero : not including malformations; with an outline of foetal development. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The great living authorities in Paris on this im- portant subject are Professors Dubois and Depaiil. Both have elucidated it by numerous post-mortem examinations, published memoirs, and the reading of papers before the Academy of Medicine, princi- pally, however, for the purpose of establishing the correctness of certain original views.* A good many of the leading doctrines which they have advanced have been ably replied to by M. Cazeaux, and some of the principal points advocated by them still remain matters of dispute. Dubois' views are, that certain lesions of the thymus, and also pem- phigus in the nouveau-nes, are indications of syphilis. With regard to the former, his conclu- sions are,—] st. La presence du pus dissemine ou reuni en foyers dans le thymus des enfants nouveau- nes qui avaient succombe a une syphilis evidente, doit etre consideree non plus comme une simple coincidence, mais comme un resultat et im temoi- gnage de la maladie dont ils etaient atteints. 2nd. Cette alteration autorise, en Tabsence de tout indice explicatif de la mort du foetus, a prescrire un traitement antivenerien comme le seul moyen de prevenir le retour du meme accident. He adds, I am far from regarding these conclusions as settled. With less experience, I might assume this preten- sion. On the contrary, I believe that the subject * These will be found m most of the French medical journals.