CHLOROFORM-HYOSCINE AMNESIA IN LABOUR

Effect of hyoscine butylbromide first stage of labour in multiparus women.

BACKGROUND Prolonged labor is one of the most important risk factors for perinatal compromise and, if caused by obstructed labor, it carries the risk of uterine rupture, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), puerperal sepsis, and maternal death. OBJECTIVE To determine whether or not hyoscine butylbromide shortens the stages of labor, without an increase in maternal or neonatal complications. METHOD ...

A Note on a New Use of Oxygen Therapy *Read 14th February 1923.

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The History of Hyoscine

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Chloroform

It was perhaps fitting that Lieut.-Colonel Edward Lawrie, should signalise the year of his retirement from the post of R,esidenc\r Surgeon at Hyderabad by the publication of a volume on Chloroform, a subject with which he has been identified for many years past, and in defence of his views on which, and those of his master Syme, he has fought non sine gloria for many }7ears. The introduction to...

Chloroform