The American practitioner : a monthly journal of medicine and surgery . he week preceding menstruation. We believe the explanation of the emmenagogue power ofacetate of ammonia here given is correct; and if true, we havea happy illustration of the progress of therapeutics; and thusevery year medicine is more emancipated from the dominionof blind empiricism, and walks in the clear light of science. A further inquiry as to what are direct emmenagogues wewill probably consider in the next number of this journal. Abdominal Corset.—The wood-cuts following representthe abdominal corset advised by Be
The American practitioner : a monthly journal of medicine and surgery . he week preceding menstruation. We believe the explanation of the emmenagogue power ofacetate of ammonia here given is correct; and if true, we havea happy illustration of the progress of therapeutics; and thusevery year medicine is more emancipated from the dominionof blind empiricism, and walks in the clear light of science. A further inquiry as to what are direct emmenagogues wewill probably consider in the next number of this journal. Abdominal Corset.—The wood-cuts following representthe abdominal corset advised by Bernutz, in his and Goupilsjoint work on diseases of women,* to be worn by patients * Reviewed in American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July, 1867. Notes and Queries, after attacks of .inflammation of the pelvic peritoneum. Wehave found, in suitable eases, this apparatus so useful, con-tributing so much to the comfort, and safety even, that webelieve it will be doing the profession a service to give theseillustrations, with the remarks of Bernutz upon its utility. The right-hand figure represents half the middle portion of the corset. The left-handrepresents the entire corset. and his description of it. Those who examine carefully thesecond cut, and especially the corset itself, will be struckwith the fact that the inferior border of the corset behind ishigher than the superior border in front ; in other words, thatthe pressure of the apparatus is not directly backward^ butupward and backward, thus lifting up and supporting theabdominal viscera, which otherwise descend upon the sensi- 64 Notes and Queries. tive organs and tissues of the basin. This is one of its mostimportant advantages, and renders it superior in our opinionto any similar apparatus we have ever seen. With these ob-servations we give the text of Bernutz: The necessity of rest for the diseased organ is so great—an exception being made as to absolute continence, whichshould not be too prolonged—that I thi
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