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Title: The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Edgar, J. Clifton (James Clifton), 1859-1939
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: 3rd ed., rev
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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irths, or in the birth of children who live but a short time. Syphilis in one ofthe parents is thus suggested, and, according to Ruge, it occurs in 83 per cent. of the cases. Other condi-tions, however, may pro-duce a like result. Apo-plexy of the placenta,membranes, or ovum itself,resulting from an inflam-mation of these tissues, is afrequent cause of fetaldeath. Systemic poisoningof the mother with lead,mercury, or tobacco mayresult fatally to the fetus.Not only maternal influences are to be considered in fetal death, but paternalconditions as well such as old age, extreme youth, alcoholism, chronic disease,etc. Sometimes no apparent cause can be discovered, andthe mother seems to abort simply from habit, and at aboutthe same period in her pregnancies. The essential cause ofthis catastrophe may be in the fetus itself, from diseases,injuries, or deformities. The effect of the death of thefetus on the mother may be really nil unless the germs ofputrefaction in some way reach the body.
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Fig. 442.—Macerated Fetus.—(Manhalian Maternity.)

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