A Case of Pulmonary Embolism
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pituitrin was given hypodermically. Within three minutes of the injection the patient began to cry out with intense and sudden pain of a stabbing character in the right side of the chest and back. She sat up in bed, complained of orthopnoea, became pale in the face and seemed terrified. The pulse, which had been of normal tension and 63 to the minute, now became irregular and reduced to 40 to the minute. After some 20 minutes of acute suffering she was spontaneously relieved of her agonising symptoms. Simultaneously with the commencement of the pain in the chest there was a discharge of bright red blood from the uterus, and clots were found
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