A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery (1897) (14591338508)
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Title: A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Grandin, Egbert H
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia, Davis
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Fig. i. — Melancholia Complicating Pregnancy. Fig. 2. — Chloasma of Pregnancy. PATHOLOGY OF PREGNANCY. 65 affections are intimately linked with diseased states of thewoman. Syphilis, for example, is an etiological factor ofmoment, as also disease of the interior of the uterus. Evenan endometritis of light grade, antedating conception, rendersthe soil unfit for the proper development of the ovum, and, ifthe result be not abortion or premature labor, the effect is inter-ference with certain of the phenomena of labor, as is amplydwelt upon later. Disease of the decidua is apt to follow on an existing endo-metritis, or it may develop as the sequence of an acute inter-current disease of the woman during the course of pregnancy.Thus, in the course of cholera, or scarlet fever, and the like,inflammatory changes may set in in the decidual lining of theuterus and thence spread to the placenta and the membranes.As regards the membranes, we thus may witness the develop-ment of a diffused inf
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