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Title: Brooklyn medical journal.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Medical Society of the County of Kings (Kings County, N.Y.)
Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Medical Society of Co. of Kings
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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tification for crani-otomy, but as the fcetal heart was fairly strong at the time ofoperating, we preferred the course pursued rather than the onlyalternative of taking the childs life, or what we regarded as stillworse, the subterfuge of waiting for it to die. The condition of the mother could not have been more satis-factory had the child been extracted by craniotomy—the incisionshows no sign of infection though the patient has not whollyescaped the effects of the prolonged pressure at the lower portionof the birth-canal. This, so far as is known, is the first symphysiotomy in America.Three days later a similar operation was done by Prof. Barton G.Hirst of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Robert P. Harris, to whom we are indebted for the revivalof symphysiotomy in this country, has kindly given me the statis-tics of the modern antiseptic operation as follows: Total 51. 22during the present year. Paris 11, Italy 6, Germany 3, U. S. A. 2.No death in the last 33 consecutive cases.
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JEROME MERCURIALIS, called Jerome, becanse he was born on the day of the festival of the saint of that name; aud Mercurialis, on account of hisgreat success as a practitioner of the healing art, causing the appreciative populace to salute him as the son of Mercury. He was born at Forli, a small Italian village; of parents of great social standing in his native town, in 1530. He was educated at Padua, receiving his doctors degree, in 1555, after which he returned to his native village, andbegan the practice of medicine with great success; and achieved not only great reputation on account of his professional skill,but also the greatest civic confidence of his fellow citizens; inasmuch as they sent him on an embassy to the Pope at Rome,where he attracted the notice of Cardinal Alexander Farnese, who prevailed upon him to become a member of his family;which place he filled for seven years, devoting himself to study and the production of his learned and elegant work : DeArte Gymnastica Lih

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