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Society Transactions NEW YORK OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY MEETING OF FEBRUARY 14,1933 DR. EDw. L. KEYES read, by invitation, a communication entitled The Importance of Establishing a. Conditional B.e1lex "Pregna.ncy-Syphilis" in the Minds of the Medical Profession. (See page 71.) DR. ARTHUR STEIN read, by invitation, a paper on The Relationship Between Gynecology and Orthopedics. (See page 64.)
CHICAGO GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING OF FEBRUARY 17, 1933 DR. SoL. LITT read a paper on Autotransplantation of Place111ta to the Anterior Chamber of the Eye and Its Effect on Lactation. (See page 37.) DR. R. A. LIFVENDAHL read a paper entitled Hematometra Oervica.lis with Spe.. cial Reference to Pelvic Endometriosis. (Will be published in August issue.)
Pastiels: Severe Eclampsia. Treated by Supra-pubic Cesarean Section After Failure of Delmas' Method, Bruxelles-med. 10: 493, 1930. Pastiels feels that where medical treatment of eclampsia has failed to cheek the progress of the disease, evacuation of the uterus is indicated. The two procedures of choice are (1) Manual dilatation of the cervix under spinal anesthesia according to the technic of Delmas or (2) supra-pubic cesarean section. He reports in detail a case where failing manual dilatation of the cervix a low cesarean section was done with excellent results. He points out that one reason for failure of the first method was muscular constriction of the internal os due possibly to an isolated muscular irritation by the toxins of the eclamptic state, and cites a somewhat sim· ilar case reported by Coil de Carrera and Bremond in which spinal anesthesia failed to obtain a paralyzing effect on the cervical musculature. This latter author further feels that in eclamptic states it is always more difficult to obtain cervical dilatation under spinal anesthesia. THEO. W. ADAMS.
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CHICAGO GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING OF FEBRUARY 17, 1933 DR. SoL. LITT read a paper on Autotransplantation of Place111ta to the Anterior Chamber of the Eye and Its Effect on Lactation. (See page 37.) DR. R. A. LIFVENDAHL read a paper entitled Hematometra Oervica.lis with Spe.. cial Reference to Pelvic Endometriosis. (Will be published in August issue.)
Pastiels: Severe Eclampsia. Treated by Supra-pubic Cesarean Section After Failure of Delmas' Method, Bruxelles-med. 10: 493, 1930. Pastiels feels that where medical treatment of eclampsia has failed to cheek the progress of the disease, evacuation of the uterus is indicated. The two procedures of choice are (1) Manual dilatation of the cervix under spinal anesthesia according to the technic of Delmas or (2) supra-pubic cesarean section. He reports in detail a case where failing manual dilatation of the cervix a low cesarean section was done with excellent results. He points out that one reason for failure of the first method was muscular constriction of the internal os due possibly to an isolated muscular irritation by the toxins of the eclamptic state, and cites a somewhat sim· ilar case reported by Coil de Carrera and Bremond in which spinal anesthesia failed to obtain a paralyzing effect on the cervical musculature. This latter author further feels that in eclamptic states it is always more difficult to obtain cervical dilatation under spinal anesthesia. THEO. W. ADAMS.
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