Vol 9, No 2 (1895)

Mm. Yy! Many of you have recently attended a very interesting and rare pathological childbirth in the Likhachevsky Birth House. Let me now analyze in detail these childbirth, demonstrate to you an object - the growing fetuses, which caused great difficulties during childbirth, and then make a general summary of the conduct of childbirth with accreted fetuses in general.

Before proceeding to the examination of the data obtained by us, the measurements of the pelvic outlet on the living, we will allow to state how the general measurements of the pelvis were made in the Gavanskiy Maternity Shelter in those cases in which the exit was determined.

D.O. Ott chaired.
30 members were present.

1. Protocol No. VII has been read and approved.
2. The Chairman stated that the Board, on behalf of the Society, congratulated Mr. N. I. Stravinsky, Treasurer of the Society, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his medical activity. All those present responded to this statement with prolonged, long-lasting applause. N. I. Stravinsky thanked the Society for the attention paid to him.
3. The following letter of the Obstetric-Gynecological Society in Kiev was read:

D.O. Ott chaired.
23 members attended.
1) The Chairman announced to those present that the Board decided to send out Mr. members of the Society amended § 17 of the Charter, approved by the Government on February 22, 1894.
2) The letter of the Kiev Obstetric and Gynecological Society has been read. (See protocol No. VIII, dated December 22, 1894).
It was resolved: to accept the proposal of the named Society, however, it is limited so that the articles, even of the members of the Kiev Obstetric and Gynecological Society, but not reported to the family of the Society, are accepted by the editorial board of the "Journal of Obstetrics and Women's Diseases" on common basis.

A 22-year-old married woman, tall, terribly emaciated, was completely healthy before her marriage. She always menstruated correctly, after 4 weeks. The pregnancy went completely right. On April 8, 1885, labor began. For the sake of increased pain, the village grandmother advised the woman in labor to walk around the room. The fetus was born suddenly, in the position of the woman in labor on her knees and fell to the floor, after which the pseudo-midwife, grabbing the umbilical cord, quickly pulled it out, and the postpartum woman fainted.

The number of existing generally known means against the already developed pus blood indicates their unreliability, and, they are used by doctors, so to speak, scraping their hearts, one after the other — in most cases with negative results. At the present time, thanks to rational prophylaxis, in relatively rarely encountered cases of this disease, we all the same have to fight it with the same, little confidence-inspiring means, such as; emetic, swallowing, diaphoretic, transfusion, baths, quinine, wine alcohol, rubbing in mercury ointment — and many others.