The Medical and Physical Journal - v. 25 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: then proposed tbe administration of a mixture of infusion of mint with aether, and applied compresses, dipped in aether, to the tumour. Soon after this practice ... more »was tried, the pain in the abdjmen, the hiccup, and the vomiting, subsided; the swelling sensibly diminished, nnd by the next dny totally disappeared ;—since which the patient has had no return of the complaint. To the Editors of the Medical and Physical Journal. Gentlemen, . nothing tends more towards the elucidation of medical science than the records of cases and facts, and as I do not .. immediately recollect having any where read of a case of twin births similar to tin-one I have here detailed, or met with during a period of thirty years, I send it for insertion in your useful Journal. Ana Binder, a young woman about sixteen, being in her first pregnancy, was taken in labour on Sunday.afternoon, the 2-tth of July, 1809. She was attended by a very experienced midwife, but not being able to accomplish the delivery, she sent tor me abonC seven o'clock ; when I arrived, she informed me it was a twin case, and the first had presented by the feet. On passing an examination, I disco vered that the body of the child had protruded through the external orifice, with the arms down on each side; the funis ambilicalis, extremities, and part of the parieties of the abdomen, were in u state oi putrefaction ; therefore I concluded Ibb child, for some considerable time, had lost its existence ; the abdomen was towards the ptibis of the patient, and was so completely pinioned or impacted in this way, in the external orifice, which was very contracted and rigid, that it ivus not without some considerable time and trouble I could extract the shoulders ; and with much difficulty, with all the care, attention, and circumspectio...« less