Showing papers in "British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1952"

TL;DR: It will be difficult to develop a well-defined operation for stress incontinence until the authors acquire exact knowledge as to how urination is controlled.

TL;DR: It is shown that a high obstetric mortality is found where social conditions are poor, and that reduction of this mortality has depended hitherto more upon improvements in the standard of living than on the provision of a more extensive and better maternity service.

TL;DR: The present review relates to 472 consecutive twin pregnancies, equally divided between two Liverpool hospitals in which undergraduates are taught obstetrics, covering the 5 calendar years 1946 to 1950 for the Liverpool Maternity hospital, and the first 5 years of working of the Mill Road Maternity Hospital since its opening in October 1946.

TL;DR: The physiologist hopes that by the use of new techniques, or by the investigation of the action of hormones, or of new drugs, he will be able at best to reach an understanding of the process of parturition, or at least provide methods which will allow the obstetrician to obtain a greater control over the process in man.

TL;DR: The most obvious theme was the relation of the thyroid gland to menstruation and pregnancy, and to this I shall add some remarks on the thymus gland in the same connexion, these two organs having been my particular study for many years.

TL;DR: Percival Willughby, an ardent pupil of Harvey, should have his name added, and I want to try to-day to bring to life again this little-known doctor and his love of his profession.

TL;DR: The higher mortality of twins than of single births has been variously ascribed to toxaemia, 47 1 crowding in the uterus, complications of delivery, and prematurity, but there is little direct evidence that it contributes to the higher mortalityof twins.

TL;DR: It is surprising to find that the majority of British textbooks in obstetrics deal with this subject under the heading of normal pregnancy.

TL;DR: Cancer of the body of the uterus is chosen as the subject of my address because the method of treatment used in my clinic for this condition, as also for cancer of the cervix, varies greatly from that in general use.

TL;DR: The increasing numbers of new cases in recent years revealed by more careful histological examination has encouraged pathologists to supplement their studies with bacteriological methods.

TL;DR: This work is to deal entirely with the clinical features of genital tuberculosis, and little attention has been given to certain aspects of the subject, for example the therapeutic effect of radiation.

TL;DR: The experience gained from maintaining a stock of 6,000 toads and performing more than 100,000 pregnancy tests in the past 5$ years should be available to workers who wish to make use of this animal.

TL;DR: A large smooth tumour mass was found in the left tubo-ovarian region and total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oaphorectomy was performed and curettage revealed 783 healthy-looking curettings.

TL;DR: It is necessary to say something about fits in general, and give a thumb-nail sketch of the electroencephalogram, because obstetricians and anaesthetists welcome a brief, even if over-simplified, exposition of eclampsia.

TL;DR: Four specimens, none previously described, are in the Obstetrical Museum of the University of Liverpool, 3 having been added within the last 4 years, and one is unusually complete in that it includes not only the detached cervix, but also the uterus from which it came.

TL;DR: The number of recorded cases including the case herein reported comes to 28 in all, and certain of the cases occurring in pregnancy, including the one herein reported, would appear to belong to the category of spontaneous rupture of the normal spleen.

TL;DR: A large number of cases before, during and after surgical induction of labour are observed and the object of this communication is to discuss these cases and to indicate the group in which difficulties have been encountered.

TL;DR: During the 10-year period 1940-1950, 90 simple cysts and neoplasms of the vulva (excluding cysts of Bartholin’s glands and endometriosis) were submitted for histology at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women and, of these, 12 were typical hydradenomata (Table I).

TL;DR: The occurrence in pregnancy of malignant melanoma of the vulva in pregnancy must be very rare, for reference to it in the literature is scanty.

TL;DR: The character of the breast enlargement in theregnancy group resembles that seen in the adolescent hypertrophy group, except that in the pregnancy group the lobules are increased in number.

TL;DR: In view of recent interest in the problem of postmaturity, a series of 115 consecutive cases admitted to the maternity wards of the Royal Free Hospital during 195051, in whom the actual date of delivery was 16 days or more later than the calculated date are investigated.

TL;DR: In this clinic, where a large number of cases of carcinoma of the vulva are submitted to radical vulvectomy, the need for a rapid report on the nodes has been apparent for some time and an attempt has been made to apply the smear technique to removed lymph nodes in much the same manner as the wet film preparations.

TL;DR: A survey of pregnancies and labours in 700 young mothers was carried out in order to establish the ways in which they differ from their older sisters, obstetrically.