MELÆNA NEONATORUM.

Asphyxia Neonatorum.

I have presented the material in three sections, the first concerns the antenatal events leading to foetal anoxia, the second deals with the management of labour, and the third discusses methods of treatment which may be applicable in domiciliary midwifery. I have quoted fairly extensively from the National Perinatal Mortality Survey (1961) carried out in 1958 under the auspices of the National...

Ophthalmia Neonatorum

Ihis work won for its author the Middleinore Piize of the British Medical Association in 1907. It contains the most complete account there is in the English language of a preventible disease winch is still responsible for a large amount of the blindness in the world. The book abounds with instructive tables taken from all available souices illustrating the prevalence, etiology, pievention and t...

Asphyxia Neonatorum

Melæna and Hæmatemesis in the New Born

have swallow? some of the mother's iblood at the time of lC> ?' and that blood came out as mel?ena and hjematenie Here I would like to draw the attention of / contributor to the fact that newly born babies s0 0f times suffer from a peculiar hannorrhagic disease ^ obscure causation, and that the haemorrhage may & Qf the intracranial, intra-abdominal, subcutaneous, ^ gastro-intestinal type. Rober...

The Surgical Aspects of Hæmatemesis and Melæna

SINCE the year 1928, when one performned a partial gastrectomy on a young man who appeared to be dying from a bleeding gastric ulcer, I have adopted the following Creed and preached it for nineteen years. Having stated the Creed, one had to admit that the opportunity to practise it had never presented. CREEI) Fatal hamorrhages take place from the left gastric artery or from the gastro-duodenal ...