Street railway accidents : compiled for the use of the Trial department of the New York City railway company / by John J. Moorhead.

  • Moorhead, John J. (John Joseph), 1874-1957.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Street railway accidents : compiled for the use of the Trial department of the New York City railway company / by John J. Moorhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    4. Kidney trouble; 5. Criminal interference; 6. Low attachment of Placenta (afterbirth). It has been said that a healthy ovum in a healthy womb is dislodgable only by instrumentation. SYMPTOMS AND DURATION:'These in part depend ox\ the period of pregnancy, but in a general way the symptoms during the first three months (Abortion Period) are much like those of an excessive men- struation. The usual combination of symptoms can be stated thus : 1. Abdominal pain or tenderness; after third month this becomes paroxysmal and is separated by intervals and approaches the true Labor Pain type; 2. Vaginal bleeding; at first this is slight, later clots are expelled, and often actual haemorrhage occurs. During the Abor- tion Period (first three months) the blood loss is slight because the entire contents of womb are generally expelled in a soft-shelled egg'' manner; 3. Stomach symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting; 4. Constitutional signs, such as weakness, perhaps actual fainting (Syncope), headache and pallor. Whatever be the initiating cause, it is usual for the symptoms to begin soon after its infliction; for ex- ample, after a fall or other trauma, symptoms are usu- ally not delayed beyond a few hours, and if more than a day intervenes, it is not unlikely that other factors play at least a contributing part. From the beginning to the end of Abortion Symp- toms, 24 to 36 hours usually elapses. (Edgar).