Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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XXX THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL. I
tiou. The uterine wall may be so thimied ralysis affecting the thoracic region will i|
and friable that the removal of the uterus produce a scoliosis with the convexity to- ji
becomes necessary. Adhesion of the pla- ward the healthy side, while paralysis af- li
centa over the cicatrix is a rare complica- fecting the lumbar region will give a curva- '\
tion.— L'Obstetrique. ture with convexity tiiward the paralyzed li
side. Consequently, a paralysis of dorsal ij
Puerperal Eclampsia and Leucocytosis ^^d lumbar region at once will give a dou- "
oi the Cerebrospinal Fluid
^le curvature.—La Presse Medical. ]
Maurice Vilhiret and Leon Tixier de
scribes a case of eclampsia occurring before. Treatment oi Postanaestbetic Vomiting.
during, and after a six months' abortion. The most rational way to treat and pre- ,i
in which careful examination of the cerebro- vent nausea and vomiting after anaeslhesia ;
spinal fluid showed that there was present appears to be to pi omote in every way the i
a leucocyte reaction in the fluid. There elim.ination of the circulating anaesthetic,
was no other toxic condition, and no nerv- That is to say, the patient should be kept i
ous or infectious condition present. There warm so that the skin may act freely, and i
was no nephritis. The arteiial tension re- renal secretion should be helped. For this ':
mained normal throughout, and the albu- purpose saline enemata are of great value, ;
min disappeared rapidly after the cessation and one should be introduced slowly as 1
of the convulsions. Had there been uremia soon as the patient is back in bed. In some j
the tension would have been high and albu- hands large quantities of saline solution are \
minuria maintained for some time. The introduced under the skin slowly and for \
author states that there are a certain num- long periods of time after severe operatio-is, :^
ber of cases of eclampsia in which hyper- and it is claimed that not only is shock ditension
of the blood vessels cannot be con- minished in this way, but after- vomiting is
sidered a cause of the ccnvulsious, and in much less frequent. While elimination is '
these the presence of leucocytosis is in favor thus going on, the less put into the stomach
of a toxoinfectiue origin for the convulsions, the better. There is no call for anything i
—Gazette des Hopitaux. at all except through thirst, and this gives J
. .„ . .^ ^ . little trouble if enemata of subcutaneous in- ;
Antibacterial Sera m^the Treatment ol
j^^^,^^,^ ^^^ ^^^^ Washing out the mouth )
with lemon juice and water is pleasant for j
Bandi says that therapeutic sera, in dis- the patient and helps to allav feelings of i
tinction from antitoxins, contain specific thirst. Preventive treatment with glucose, «
principles which opposes themselves to the based on chemical theories explaining de- >:
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vitality and reproduction of the bacteria,
The author's serum is agglutinating and
laved chloroform poisoning, has been given
atrial at St. George's Hospital; the results
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sensibilizing. Bacilli of diphtheria in con- do not show any marked alteration of the i
tact with this serum when injected under ordinary percentage of cases of after-sick- .|
the skin are rapidly destroyed by the phago- ness.— J. Alumfeld, in London Medical !
cytes and undergo endocellular breaking Press and Circular.
down. It seems best to produce a polyvalent
serum making use of different cul-
Tincture of Eucalyptus in Hemorrbage.
tures of diphtheria bacilli, as is done with A. Todd White calls attention to the value
the streptococcus, so as to utilize differences of this remedy in cases of hemorrhage. He
of morphology and biology in these germs, was sent for to see a patient who had a tooth
The specific amboceptors obtained from the extracted three days before, and had had
larger animal serum may be complemented persistent hemorrhage from the socket.
by the use of alexic blood serum of man. The usual remedies were applied without.
La Riforma Medica. On the third day tincture of eucalyptus was
Scoliosis Following Infantile Paralysis.
applied and the hemorrhage almost immediately
ceased. The next day the patient's
M. P. Desfosses advances the theory that brother cut his foot and the hemorrhage
the cau.se of scoliosis is not osseous, but is
due to a primary atrophy of the muscles of
was profuse. Having some of the eucalyptus
left he applied it the wound, and the
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the back, accompanied by atrophy of the hemorrhage immediately stopped. Later j
vertebrae. One of the principal causes of the author was asked to see a case in which
scoliosis is infantile paralysis, affecting the persistent hemorrhage followed the applicamuscles
of the thorax and lumbar region, tion of a leech to the gum. The usual reme-.
The musculature of the back is very com- dies—alum, tr. ferri perchloi, ice, etc.—
plex, very difficult to study in its different were tried unsuccessfully for twelve hours.;*
groups, and hence not well understood. He applied tincture of eucalyptus, and the. I
There is a functional independence of the hemorrhage ceased within five minutes anP
dorsal and lumbar regions. Infantile pa- did not return. It is most useful on lint
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