Parturient women frequently escape infection when the erysipelatous disorder is of the so-called medical type.
During this period unmarried parturient women receive pecuniary assistance from the hospital to enable them to obtain a place in which to be confined.
The outcome of modern investigation tends, however, to prove that the puerperal poison is of a septic nature, and that the usual points of introduction of the poison are the lesions of the parturient canal.
Regarding it as a proposition from Congress to meet the unparalleled exigencies of the hour, it is no better than the “muscipular abortion” sent into the world by the “parturient mountain.
Discussion on Accidental Rupture of the Non-parturient Uterus.
Accidental Rupture of the Non-parturient Uterus, with report of cases.
The same occurs in labour-pains, the exertion of the parturient woman relieves the violence of the pains for a time, which recur again soon after she has ceased to use those exertions.
During the whole of this period the head did not advance a single line; nor could it, as the direction of the parturient efforts carried it against the projection of the sacrum.
Meigs, "in determining the momentum of blood in the vessels is well known to the Profession, but there are few cases where it is of more consequence to pay a profound regard to this influence than in the parturient woman.
This condition may also occur in connection with Ergot, Forage or Lead Poisoning, Milk Fever or Parturient Apoplexy.
To cattle one year and over, place one ounce in capsule and give with capsule gun.
Repeat this treatment two or three times during intervals of a week or two.
Parturient laminitis it is that offers us the most striking illustration of the truth that a poisoned state of the blood-stream is a sure factor in the causation of an attack.
Fibroids, called also fibromyomata, fibromata, and myomata, in the uterine muscle or adnexa commonly enlarge during pregnancy, and if they are big enough and low in the pelvis may block the parturient canal.
The lower part of the pelvis, called the pelvis minor or true pelvis, supports the muscles of the pelvic floor, and gives shape and trend to the parturient canal.
If there is any serious obstacle at all to delivery in the parturient canal or in the fetal position, or the like, pituitrin is likely to cause rupture of the uterus and asphyxiation of the child.
In the puerperium it appears commonly as a septic infection in abrasions about the parturient canal.
No human being, save a pregnant orparturient woman, is susceptible to the poison.
Freedom, parturient with a hundred states, Confides them to your hand; the nascent prize Claims all your care, your soundest wisdom tries.
When first his form arose erect on earth, Parturientnature hail'd the wondrous birth, With fairest limbs and finest fibres wrought, And framed for vast and various toils of thought.
The increase of the land, as we have seen in the case of the Corals, is given by the sea; the sea is no other than the parturient and laboring womb of the globe.
They are parturient during nine months, and nurse their young during five or six months, teaching them to swim, fish, and select the best food.
In former years, puerperal fever took the lives of from five to fifty of each one hundred parturient mothers.
A broad pelvis in a woman is always a guarantee that there will be no insurmountable difficulty in the parturient act.
The vagina is also more or less injured or bruised through parturient efforts; this may be in the nature of a laceration or an abrasion of its mucous surface.
The last throes of labor which usher the child into the world constitute the climax of the parturienteffort and as there is little or no interval between the pains, the pains at this period have been appropriately termed double labor pains.
The custom of providing a special hut for parturient women has been already noted.
It was an Arab custom in certain places to build a hut outside the camp, where the parturient woman had to stay for a time.
Infants born in his jurisdiction are presented to him soon after birth, and parturient women pray to him for relief.
As I would regard the feelings of a parturient woman in a degree only secondary to her safety, I would by no means insist on putting her to this inconvenience, unless I thought it quite indispensable.
What disturbances might not such an organism carry into the body of a parturient woman, after passing into the peritoneum, the lymphatics or the blood through the maternal placenta!
That form of congestion of the brain known as parturient apoplexy, or parturient paresis, which is so frequently associated with the period of calving is described in another part of this work.
Injections into the udder are now regularly made in the treatment of parturient paresis (milk fever).
Chorea, constant twitching and irregular spasmodic movements of the muscles, has been noticed in connection with or as a sequel to other affections, as, for example, parturient apoplexy.
This is especially to be guarded against when the throat is partly paralyzed or insensitive, as in parturient paresis (milk fever).
Paralysis may occur in connection with parturient apoplexy, lead poisoning, ergotism, etc.
Softening of bones and synchondroses, torsion, the weight of the trunk, and the pressure of the femora from below produce the change of the pelvis so well known and much feared in the parturient female.
Parturient women under such circumstances occasionally succumb to the typhoid condition into which they are thrown.
The confluent form at these times is said to attack parturient women principally (Ketslaer).
I have known many cases, in addition to those already given, where the parturient process was prolonged for hours in consequence of the animal's being milked, in whom fever supervened almost immediately afterwards.
Perhaps it is not necessary to say why it is better to use old sheets for the bed of a parturient woman, but I will repeat that old ones are to be preferred, and really new ones, that is, only once washed, never used.
Obstetrical binders, or bandages are now seldom put on a parturient woman, but in case they are to be used, I give the best kind I know of.
The ease with which Indian women perform theparturient act is proverbial.
