Anomalies and Curiosities of MedicineGould, George M. (George Milbrey)
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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
Abnormalities, Human; Medicine -- Anecdotes
Lovort describes an enucleation of the eye in the second month of
pregnancy. Pilcher cites the instance of a woman of fifty-eight, eight
months in her fourth pregnancy, whose breast and axilla he removed
without interruption of pregnancy. Robson, Polaillon, and Coen report
similar instances.
Rein speaks of the removal of an enormous echinococcus cyst of the
omentum without interruption of pregnancy. Robson reports a
multi-locular cyst of the ovary with extensive adhesions of the uterus,
removed at the tenth week of pregnancy and ovariotomy performed without
any interruption of the ordinary course of labor. Russell cites the
instance of a woman who was successfully tapped at the sixth month of
pregnancy.
McLean speaks of a successful amputation during pregnancy; Napper, one
of the arm; Nicod, one of the arm; Russell, an amputation through the
shoulder joint for an injury during pregnancy, with delivery and
recovery; and Vesey speaks of amputation for compound fracture of the
arm, labor following ten hours afterward with recovery. Keen reports
the successful performance of a hip-joint amputation for malignant
disease of the femur during pregnancy. The patient, who was five months
advanced in gestation, recovered without aborting.
Robson reports a case of strangulated hernia in the third month of
pregnancy with stercoraceous vomiting. He performed herniotomy in the
femoral region, and there was a safe delivery at full term. In the
second month of pregnancy he also rotated an ovarian tumor causing
acute symptoms and afterward performed ovariotomy without interfering
with pregnancy. Mann quotes Munde in speaking of an instance of removal
of elephantiasis of the vulva without interrupting pregnancy, and says
that there are many cases of the removal of venereal warts without any
interference with gestation. Campbell of Georgia operated inadvertently
at the second and third month in two cases of vesicovaginal fistula in
pregnant women. The first case showed no interruption of pregnancy, but
in the second case the woman nearly died and the fistula remained
unhealed. Engelmann operated on a large rectovaginal fistula in the
sixth month of pregnancy without any interruption of pregnancy, which
is far from the general result. Cazin and Rey both produced abortion
by forcible dilatation of the anus for fissure, but Gayet used both the
fingers and a speculum in a case at five months and the woman went to
term. By cystotomy Reamy removed a double hair-pin from a woman
pregnant six and a half months, without interruption, and according to
Mann again, McClintock extracted stones from the bladder by the urethra
in the fourth month of pregnancy, and Phillips did the same in the
seventh month. Hendenberg and Packard report the removal of a tumor
weighing 8 3/4 pounds from a pregnant uterus without interrupting
gestation.
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