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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780266495451

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 38: 1 July, 1832 I was requested to visit an infant seven days after birth, that was bleeding from the umbilicus. The haemorrhage had com menced in the night, shortly after the separation of the funis The gentleman (whose case it was) had made a judicious at tempt to arrest the bleeding by the application of a graduated compress, supported by straps of adhesive plaster, and a roller. In a short time, however, the blood again appeared, trickling from under the bandages, and the poor infant was nearly ex hansted. The applications were removed, and a second attempt was made to compress the bleeding orifice, but with as little success as before, as in a short time blood was again found oozing from beneath the bandages. A third attempt was made to effectually check the effusion of blood, but again failed, and the child died in the afternoon. Upon examining the part after death, the vein was found uncontracted, and the umbilicus was sloughy, ragged, and of a dark colour. I have seen compresses, moistened with powerful astringents, applied to suppress this haemorrhage. I have also seen an attempt made (but unsuc cessfully) to bring together the sides of the bleeding vessel, by passing a hare-lip pin through the integuments, and thus pinching it up. Several cases of this nature have come under my observation, but they have all been fatal except one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.