The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Volume 62W.A. Townsend & Adams, 1910 |
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abdominal abortion acute adhesions Bantock bladder bleeding blood broad ligament cancer carcinoma catgut cause cavity cells cent cervix Cesarean section child clinical condition cure curet cyst cystocele cystoscope death delivery diagnosis dilatation disease early eclampsia ectopic ectopic pregnancy epithelium examination fetus fever fibroid fluid forceps frequently gauze glands growth gynecological heart hemorrhage hospital hysterectomy increased infants infection intestinal Jour kidney labor later lesions malignant membrane menstruation ment method milk months mortality muscle normal obstetrics occur operation organs ovarian ovary pain pathological patient pelvic pelvic floor perineum peritoneal peritoneum physician placenta placenta previa position posterior pregnancy present prolapse puerperal rectum removed renal reported rupture sepsis serum showed Sterile surgeon surgery surgical suture symptoms temperature tion tissue Transverse incision treatment tubal tubal pregnancy tube tumor ulcer ureter urine uterine uterus vaginal vomiting wall weeks women York
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Page 689 - A Manual of Obstetrics. By AFA KING, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the Medical Department of the Columbian University, Washington, DC, and in the University of Vermont, etc.
Page 693 - Germany. 2. Overproduction of ill-trained men is due in the main to the existence of a very large number of commercial schools sustained in many cases by advertising methods through which a mass of unprepared youth is drawn out of industrial occupations into the study of medicine.
Page 606 - Societies, each of which met once a month, and of the section on obstetrics and diseases of women of the American Medical Association...
Page 979 - Hospital, New York; Physician - in - Charge of the Babies' Clinic of the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.
Page 53 - So long as an ovarian tumor does not materially interfere with the appearance, prospects, or comfort of the patient; so long as no injurious pressure is exercised by it on the organs of the pelvis, abdomen, and chest; so long as heart, and lungs, digestive organs, kidneys, bladder, and rectum perform their functions without much disturbance; so long as there is no great emaciation, no very wearying pain, no distressing difficulty in locomotion ; nor, so long as such injurious influence can be counteracted...
Page 694 - The existence of many of these unnecessary and inadequate medical schools has been defended by the argument that a poor medical school is justified in the interest of the poor boy. It is clear that the poor boy has no right to go into any profession for which he is not willing to obtain adequate preparation; but the facts set forth in this report make it evident that this argument is insincere, and that the excuse which has hitherto been put forward in the name of the poor boy is in reality an argument...
Page 693 - The striking and significant facts which are here brought out are of enormous consequence not only to the medical practitioner, but to every citizen of the United States and Canada; for it is a singular fact that the organization of medical education in this country has hitherto been such as not only to commercialize the process of education itself, but also to obscure in the minds of the public any discrimination between the well trained physician and the physician who has had no adequate training...
Page 270 - ... obstetrics, should be urged to avail themselves of elective opportunities. That the number of labor cases personally attended by each undergraduate student should be at least six ; under supervision and instruction. Character of Instruction. We recommend all the known methods of teaching this branch of medicine, namely: didactic lectures, clinical lectures, clinical conferences, ward classes and touch courses, hospital and out-patient instruction, manikin practice in operative obstetrics and...
Page 150 - New mental abilities appear, while others disappear, the type of play changes > new companions are sought, new likings, tendencies, enthusiasms, and emotions make up the whole life. Old landmarks of life fade and new ones are eagerly sought. "The sexual ripening determines an entirely new outlook upon life, the earning instinct looms large in the boy, and the home-making instinct in the girl.
Page 157 - ... hereditary features, undergoes considerable changes. The importance of this entirely unexpected result lies in the fact that even those characteristics which modern science has led us to consider as most stable are subject to thorough changes under the new. environment.' This would indicate the conclusion 'that racial physical characteristics do not survive under the new social and climatic environment of America.