The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . in pregnancy, and if the organ does not rise in the pelvis it will,especially if the pelvis is smalt, become jammed in by the bony parietes and abor-tion occur. Anteversion of the pregnant uterus is not often attended with serioussymptoms, but retrodisplacement of the gravid uterus is very productive ofabortions. The influential causes are metritis and endometritis, hyperemia, andhemorrhage into the decidua which result from the venous stasis caused by theretro-displacement. i6. Fever in the Mother Aff
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . in pregnancy, and if the organ does not rise in the pelvis it will,especially if the pelvis is smalt, become jammed in by the bony parietes and abor-tion occur. Anteversion of the pregnant uterus is not often attended with serioussymptoms, but retrodisplacement of the gravid uterus is very productive ofabortions. The influential causes are metritis and endometritis, hyperemia, andhemorrhage into the decidua which result from the venous stasis caused by theretro-displacement. i6. Fever in the Mother Affecting the Fetus.—This is a common cause of abortion and premature deHvery, especiallywhen fever is suddenly developed. Many ex-periments have been made on animals in orderto arrive at the definite effects that high tem-perature of maternal origin produces in thefetus. Views on the subject have changed to agreat degree accordingly. It has been shown inthe guinea-pig, for example, that the fetus canendure a much higher temperature than had\ formerly been supposed. In one case, the ani-.
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