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EXTRACTION OF A LIVE CHILD, BY THE OPERATION OF TURNING, AFTER THE MOTHER'S DEATH.
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EXTRACTION OF A LIVE BY THE OPERATION OF
CHILD,
TURNING,
AFTER THE MOTHER’S DEATH. Mrs. H., 41 years of age, was frequently subject to accidents depending on plethora.
cious
system of swindling, of which medical
the subjects, has lately been put in practice around London. A man in the garb of a gentleman," he says, " called at my surgery, some few miles west of London, about three weeks since, apparently in anxious haste, to borrow a large-sized catheter, to relieve a patient who was suffering under retention of urine. So plausib’e was his manner, and so professional his style, that I at once, and unsuspectingly, offered him my case, from which he selected the largest instrument, and carried it of, I have since discovered never to return. that the same person made many calls on the same day on my professional neighbours, many of whom contributed to his stock of catheters." IN the charter which is about to be granted for constituting an university in this metropolis, the new seat of learning will be denominated 11 The University of London," and the parent institution in Gower Street will be called 11 University men are
Her first seven children were born without any accident: pregnant, for the eighth time, in 1832; she lost the foetus by abortion. Towards the fourth month of her ninth pregnancy symptoms of congestion towards the head set in, and on the eighth month she began to complain of pain about the sacrum, with loss of motion in the right lower exremity. These accidents were soon joined by pain in the head and vertigo, which were a little relieved by general bleeding. On the 25th of April, 1834, at mid-day, the first pains set in, and the membranes gave way at about 10 o’clock in the evening ; the mobility now immediately became modified, and evidently weaker; the patient complained of excessive pressure about the forehead, anxiety, and oppression. These accidents College." were worse on the following day ; the face C)’:
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EXTRACTION OF A LIVE BY THE OPERATION OF
CHILD,
TURNING,
AFTER THE MOTHER’S DEATH. Mrs. H., 41 years of age, was frequently subject to accidents depending on plethora.
cious
system of swindling, of which medical
the subjects, has lately been put in practice around London. A man in the garb of a gentleman," he says, " called at my surgery, some few miles west of London, about three weeks since, apparently in anxious haste, to borrow a large-sized catheter, to relieve a patient who was suffering under retention of urine. So plausib’e was his manner, and so professional his style, that I at once, and unsuspectingly, offered him my case, from which he selected the largest instrument, and carried it of, I have since discovered never to return. that the same person made many calls on the same day on my professional neighbours, many of whom contributed to his stock of catheters." IN the charter which is about to be granted for constituting an university in this metropolis, the new seat of learning will be denominated 11 The University of London," and the parent institution in Gower Street will be called 11 University men are
Her first seven children were born without any accident: pregnant, for the eighth time, in 1832; she lost the foetus by abortion. Towards the fourth month of her ninth pregnancy symptoms of congestion towards the head set in, and on the eighth month she began to complain of pain about the sacrum, with loss of motion in the right lower exremity. These accidents were soon joined by pain in the head and vertigo, which were a little relieved by general bleeding. On the 25th of April, 1834, at mid-day, the first pains set in, and the membranes gave way at about 10 o’clock in the evening ; the mobility now immediately became modified, and evidently weaker; the patient complained of excessive pressure about the forehead, anxiety, and oppression. These accidents College." were worse on the following day ; the face C)’:
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