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4-02 the charlotte medical journal. cotic. A very limited amount of alcohol with the meal now and then does to an advantage, stimulate appetite and improve digestion, and by its psychic effect, making the user enjoy his food and environment, it may be healpful. The limited amount of good that it may do, in this way, in a few rare cases, is offset a thousand, yes, a million fold by the awful dangers which accompany its use. The writer has for years had liberal views on this question, and while he believes that the proper solution of the temperance problem lies in teaching every child from the begining until matured, to be the ruler of its own spirit, to cultivate self-denial, self-control, self-respect, yet more and more as time passes he believes that absolute avoidance of alcohol in all its forms as a beverage, as a luxury, is the saftest course for all, and that while now and then a strong self-reliant, rigid backbone individual may with impunity take his occasional drink or liberal indulgence, the endorsement given to the drinking of alcohol byhis act and injury to his brother, whose keeper he really is, however much he might wish to avoid his responsibility, is an unanswerable argument against him. Advances in Obstetrics During Last Half Century. Many advances have taken place in the practice of obstetrics in the last twenty-five years. Concerning the use of the English mixture of chloroform, ether and alcohol to i,ooocases A. H. Halberststadt gives the following conclusions : i The paiturient state is the only condition of the system during life in which an-esthemetics, judiciously administered, are entirely devoid of danger. 2. The physiological action of chloroform, ether and alcohol in a woman during labor is not identical with that in an ordinary subject in a dental chair or on the surgeon's table; and, from the history of such administration, free from a well-authenticated case of death, with statistics showing its superiority over venesection, opium, etc., in the deperate emergencies attending irregular labors, as eclampsia, it is fair to infer that this agent is an especial therapeutic indication for parturient women and should be so regarded in all labors where by its use the pains of the first and second pages could be obviated and this, too, to the ultimate benefit of the mother and safety of the child. 3. In puerperal eclampsia it is especially indicated, because of its direct, rapid and general action controlling nervous physio- logical irregularities, exciting secretion, relaxing the os and perineum, and, in short, preparing the parts so as to aid the accoucheur in his manipulations for the essential emptying of the uterus, to accomplish which vensection, opium, purgation, baths, counterirritation, etc., ether singly or combined, bear to anesthetics the relation of mere fractions to a grand whole. 4. Its application is universal; no disease of heart or lungs should forbid its use. 5. In view of its known therapeutic action and safety in the small quantity required to produce narcrosis, no use of the forceps, version or obstetric operation of any moment should be performed without it, not only to save the patient from shock and its consequence, but because of the great saving of time and labor, and in most instances the assistance it affords the oprator. 6. Owing to the fact that uterine contractions are sometimes lessened by the administration, it may be regarded as important to precede it by an oxytocic in all labor, and at any stage where the pains are slights so as to increase their force, and also to guard against postpartum hemorrhage, a very infrequent occurrence where such precautions are taken. 7. Accidents to the unemptied bladder, ruptures of perineum and sphincter ani may be prevented, as well as death to the child in prolapsus of the cord, by the facilities afforded for rapid delivery in primiparfe. 8. In no instance have I seen narcosis of the child attributable to the anesthesia. The small quantity necessary to produce semi-narcosis or full narcosis, the abscence of nausea, exhaustion or shock on the re-tun of consciousness, the impossibility of nervous perturbations, the freedom from hemorrhage, the invariably rapid getting up, with the small percentage of stillborn children, are facts that go very far to prove that which I beleive to be axiomatic. By judicious administration of an anesthetic you cannot possibly do harm to a woman in childbirth ; nor can you fail to do her good. A Few Words of Advice to Students and Young Practitioners in India. Medicine is a noble profession. This is a hackneyed phrase, but is nevertheless true, for is there anything nobler and more beneficent than that which aims at prevention of disease, alleviation of human suffering and ministering to the wants of mankind at a time when it is needed. The above was written by A. Mitra, Rai Bahadur, in the Indian Medical Record, and he further says :
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-21: Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1901 |
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Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1901 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 18 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 420 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 4-02 the charlotte medical journal. cotic. A very limited amount of alcohol with the meal now and then does to an advantage, stimulate appetite and improve digestion, and by its psychic effect, making the user enjoy his food and environment, it may be healpful. The limited amount of good that it may do, in this way, in a few rare cases, is offset a thousand, yes, a million fold by the awful dangers which accompany its use. The writer has for years had liberal views on this question, and while he believes that the proper solution of the temperance problem lies in teaching every child from the begining until matured, to be the ruler of its own spirit, to cultivate self-denial, self-control, self-respect, yet more and more as time passes he believes that absolute avoidance of alcohol in all its forms as a beverage, as a luxury, is the saftest course for all, and that while now and then a strong self-reliant, rigid backbone individual may with impunity take his occasional drink or liberal indulgence, the endorsement given to the drinking of alcohol byhis act and injury to his brother, whose keeper he really is, however much he might wish to avoid his responsibility, is an unanswerable argument against him. Advances in Obstetrics During Last Half Century. Many advances have taken place in the practice of obstetrics in the last twenty-five years. Concerning the use of the English mixture of chloroform, ether and alcohol to i,ooocases A. H. Halberststadt gives the following conclusions : i The paiturient state is the only condition of the system during life in which an-esthemetics, judiciously administered, are entirely devoid of danger. 2. The physiological action of chloroform, ether and alcohol in a woman during labor is not identical with that in an ordinary subject in a dental chair or on the surgeon's table; and, from the history of such administration, free from a well-authenticated case of death, with statistics showing its superiority over venesection, opium, etc., in the deperate emergencies attending irregular labors, as eclampsia, it is fair to infer that this agent is an especial therapeutic indication for parturient women and should be so regarded in all labors where by its use the pains of the first and second pages could be obviated and this, too, to the ultimate benefit of the mother and safety of the child. 3. In puerperal eclampsia it is especially indicated, because of its direct, rapid and general action controlling nervous physio- logical irregularities, exciting secretion, relaxing the os and perineum, and, in short, preparing the parts so as to aid the accoucheur in his manipulations for the essential emptying of the uterus, to accomplish which vensection, opium, purgation, baths, counterirritation, etc., ether singly or combined, bear to anesthetics the relation of mere fractions to a grand whole. 4. Its application is universal; no disease of heart or lungs should forbid its use. 5. In view of its known therapeutic action and safety in the small quantity required to produce narcrosis, no use of the forceps, version or obstetric operation of any moment should be performed without it, not only to save the patient from shock and its consequence, but because of the great saving of time and labor, and in most instances the assistance it affords the oprator. 6. Owing to the fact that uterine contractions are sometimes lessened by the administration, it may be regarded as important to precede it by an oxytocic in all labor, and at any stage where the pains are slights so as to increase their force, and also to guard against postpartum hemorrhage, a very infrequent occurrence where such precautions are taken. 7. Accidents to the unemptied bladder, ruptures of perineum and sphincter ani may be prevented, as well as death to the child in prolapsus of the cord, by the facilities afforded for rapid delivery in primiparfe. 8. In no instance have I seen narcosis of the child attributable to the anesthesia. The small quantity necessary to produce semi-narcosis or full narcosis, the abscence of nausea, exhaustion or shock on the re-tun of consciousness, the impossibility of nervous perturbations, the freedom from hemorrhage, the invariably rapid getting up, with the small percentage of stillborn children, are facts that go very far to prove that which I beleive to be axiomatic. By judicious administration of an anesthetic you cannot possibly do harm to a woman in childbirth ; nor can you fail to do her good. A Few Words of Advice to Students and Young Practitioners in India. Medicine is a noble profession. This is a hackneyed phrase, but is nevertheless true, for is there anything nobler and more beneficent than that which aims at prevention of disease, alleviation of human suffering and ministering to the wants of mankind at a time when it is needed. The above was written by A. Mitra, Rai Bahadur, in the Indian Medical Record, and he further says : |
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