The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation

By the embryologists from the moment the spermatozoön joins the nucleus of the ovum until the end of the second week of gestation the product of conception is called the _Ovum_;...

Abortion, as the term is used by physicians, in its widest sense is the ejection or extraction of a fetus from the womb at any time before term. The word is popularly contrasted...

The State of Indiana in 1907 enacted a vasectomy law which obliges the superintendents of some prisons and asylums to appoint two surgeons whose office is to sterilize sexually...

A Discussion of euthanasia through the use of narcotics in cases of incurable diseases periodically recurs, and the opinions of those in favor of putting the patient out of his...

Gonorrhea is caused by the gonococcus discovered by Neisser in 1879. The name was given to the disease in the second century by Galen, who supposed that the condition is a sperm...

A corollary of the doctrine which treats of the destruction in medical practice of existent human life, is a consideration of what is called Birth Control, or the criminal preve...

A method of effecting painless childbirth through the use of scopolamine and morphine was first used in 1902 by Steinbuechel, and in 1906 Gauss, of the University of Freiburg in...

Any of the acute infections, as typhoid, typhus, smallpox, measles, scarlatina, and the others, attacks a pregnant woman as readily as one who is not pregnant. Pregnancy, as a r...

Syphilis in pregnancy at times assumes peculiar malignancy. The virulence depends on the patient's power of resistance, and whether or not there are septic microörganisms mixed...

The members of the human body may be injured (1) by a blow, which without bloodshed causes pain or a bruise; (2) by a wound, which breaks the continuity of the tissues; (3) by m...

In the cesarean delivery (_partus cesareus_, celiohysterotomy) the infant is brought out through an opening made in the abdominal and uterine walls. The chief indications for th...

Ectopic Gestation, called also extrauterine pregnancy, is gestation outside the uterus in the adnexa or the peritoneal cavity. Pregnancy in the horn of an abnormal or rudimentar...

The moment human life begins in the human fetus is a subject of dispute, but the moment human life ends is a mystery--we have no method of determining exactly just when the soul...

The term Eclampsia was first used to describe the sudden exaltation, flashing forth (_eklampsis_), of the vital faculties at puberty; later it was applied to convulsions, but no...

Over 20,000 women die in childbirth each year in the United States, and about 100,000 infants, and more or less permanent injury from parturition is almost general in mothers. T...

Tumors in or near the uterus may be obstacles to delivery or they may through malignancy endanger the woman's life. The commonest tumors complicating pregnancy are fibroids, can...

Hyperemesis Gravidarum, the Pernicious Vomiting of Pregnancy, is commonly classified among the toxemias; but as the etiology is not known definitely, this classification is one...

Recurring, permanent, localized spasms of facial or other groups of muscles, which are often called chorea, are tics,--convulsive tic, painful tic, accessorius spasm, and so on....

In pregnancy the kidneys always give evidence of a constant congestion, and the chief symptom of this is the great quantity of renal epithelium shed with the urine. This engorge...

Cesarean delivery is used frequently of late in placenta praevia. It may be necessary also in abruptio placentae, gunshot wounds of the abdomen during pregnancy, sometimes in ap...

From 8 to 10 per cent. of all insanity in women develops during the puerperium--the incidence is about one case to 400 births. Puerperal insanity in nearly 70 per cent. of the c...

In this book is discussed the morality involved in the ordinary cases of medical homicide and mutilation. Craniotomy has been omitted because this operation on the living child...

Diabetes Mellitus is rare in pregnancy, but when it does occur the disease is fatal in three-fourths of the children, and it hastens the death of the woman, according to the com...

Primary appendicitis in pregnancy is very rare; recurrent appendicitis is not so rare. When appendicitis goes on to suppuration and perforative peritonitis the condition is wors...

Acute yellow atrophy of the liver in pregnancy was formerly called Icterus Gravis. The disease is not necessarily connected with pregnancy, but half the cases are in pregnant wo...

The States that have this law. Reasons for the law. Hereditary transmission of certain diseases. The operation. Its effects. Restoration of the function of the interrupted vas d...

Ancient and modern opinions. The fetus is animated at the moment of conception. The single cell as the primal life-organ. Cell growth and division. Germ cells. The development o...

Abortion and miscarriage. Causes of abortion, fetal, maternal and paternal. Surgical operations and abortion. The debitum in pregnancy. Premature labor. Threatened, inevitable,...

The cause of gonorrhoea. Tests of cure. Effects on a woman. Chronicity. Prevalence. Surgical treatment in women. Morality of the surgical treatment. Conservative surgery. Salpin...

Twilight sleep to avert pain in parturition. Stages of labor. Drugs used. Scopolamine and morphine. Danger in the use of these drugs in labor. Contradictory report of physicians...

Ectopic gestation or extrauterine pregnancy. Anatomy of the uterus and its adnexa. Place of fecundation. The abnormal uterus. Tubal rupture and tubal abortion. Diagnosis. Decree...

There is a Supreme Being who alone is master of life. The Natural Law. The nature and determinants of morality. Probabilism. Permissive suicide. Suicide is illicit. Conscience....

Prognosis. Abortion. Infection of mother and fetus. Colles' Law. Erroneous notions on the curability of syphilis. Once a syphilitic probably always a syphilitic. The professiona...

The heart and life. Resuscitation after apparent death. The last sacraments in apparent death. Suspended animation. The living fetus in the womb of a dying or dead mother. Metho...

Factors in abnormal gestation. The use of pituitrin. Weak pains and the diseased heart. The diseased heart in actual parturition. Operative risk in cardiopaths. Heart block and...

Definition. Symptoms. Prognosis. Causes. Precautions against eclampsia. Forced delivery. The expectant treatment. Relative mortality and morality of the methods. Cesarean delive...