The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James Young Simpson Volume 2 ; Edited by W. O. Priestley and Horatio R. Storer

by James Young Simpson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 ...or nearly the whole surface of the chorion, and between it and the amnion, in the form either of a continuous layer or layers of coagulum, or of more or less isolated nodules; and in two instances I have seen it occupying these situations, at the same time that it was both effused into the cavity of the amnios itself, and extravasated in the form of roundish masses among the rudimentary structure of the placenta. The immediate anatomical seat of sanguineous effusions situated in the substance of the placenta itself, is probably, in general, in cavities formed in a greater or less degree by mechanical rupture of the tissues of the organ; but the occasional similarity in form of the coagula, to that presented by portions of wax injection thrown into the placenta by the utero-placental arteries or veins, would seem to show that in some cases the coagula are more or less completely circumscribed within the maternal cells of the placenta, supposing the description of these cells given by the Hunters, Meckel, and Hildcnbrand, to be correct. M. Deneux states that, in the case already referred to, he found the effused blood partly situated in the interstices between the lobules or cotyledons, a circumstance which I have not had occasion to observe in any of the specimens of the disease that I have had an opportunity of examining. 1 Professor Thomson, in his Lectures, lias long been in the habit of employing the old term ecchymosis instead of apoplexy, to designate all morbid extravasations of blood into the tissues or structures of the internal organs of the body. This use of the term ecckymosis in medical pathology Beems to be preferable to that of apoplexy, inasmuch as it is consonant both with the original derivation of the word, and with the signification in wh...

352 pages, Paperback

First published September 27, 2010

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Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. Simpson was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform on humans and helped to popularise the drug for use in medicine.