

Had been, however, no diminution in liver dulness, and the scanty urine yielded neither leucin nor tyrosin. If the early symptoms, including the hemorrhage in parturition, had actually been expressive of athyroidea, there was, perhaps, room for taking the icterus to be that of one of the graver forms of the liver derangements of pregnancy. The latter had probably been of the usual type. Bertram Rogers, but not before the appearance of venous someĪnd subcuticular abscesses in pressure areas, attested pyaemia. She was now admitted into Cossham Memorial Hospital, under the care of Dr.
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The condition on the tenth day was reassuring on the following the skin became icteric on the twelfth the jaundice was intensified, and accompanied by numerous The typhoid state supervened. On the eighth night delirium was reported on the ninth -evening occurred a rigor, with temperature of 105, and pulse rate upwards of 130. During the first week of the puerperium the patient's condition was all but wholly satisfactory lochia scarcely offensive, a one temperature oscillating degree, the skin somewhat dry, occasional fugitive pains, something of weariness and apathy? slight as those symptoms were, they gave an emphasis to the patient's desire to resume thyroid extract, the eliminant action of which upon skin and kidneys could not but be advantageous. profuse hemorrhage, the cause of which could not be determined the placenta was not involved in the os labour was in progress, the head presenting, and with little delay a male child was born, without mechanical interference or perineal laceration. Of the ninth month of her pregnancy, I found her inĬhanging her lodgings. Sickness in the early months of gestation had not been excessive, and everything pointed to a normal The urine, when wereĮxamined, proved to be normal. There any of the symptoms of renal toxaemia of associated late with thyroid insufficiency. Of her three children the first and the third In her three previous pregnancies she had taken it, but not more frequently than at other times, and since the beginning of the present pregnancy she had andĪdolescence, and at the age of twenty she entered the married i After her dismissal its use, in frequent courses, was continued, She quickly passed from childhood to and with success. Admitted an in-patient, thyroid extract was adequately administered, and she began to recover energy, intelligence and growth. While casually attending the out-patient department of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, she attracted the notice of Dr. friends, concerned on her behalf, took her during the next four years from doctor to doctor and although by one at least, she understood, the nature of her complaint was recognised, treatment was not efficiently carried out. She had good health and was counted a quick child until the age of Then she stopped growing and became dull, and her ten. She gave the following account : She had recently come to Bristol, having been born and brought up in Edinburgh. Inquiry into her present and past history elicited the fact that she had been accustomed to take thyroid extract. slight physique, rather sallow complexion, cheerful and intelligent expression. In the seventh month of her fourth pregnancy, her confinement in for the first time at the end of when she CRETINISM AND THE PUERPERIUM: RECORDED HISTORY.1
