Excerpt from Gaillard's Medical Journal, 1881, Vol. 31: Formerly the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal At the time Dr. Parvin was consult ed, the haemorrhage was violent and uncontrollable, persisting. Even after free dilatation of the cavity and tampon ing of the os uteri; other means having failed he injected very freely into the uterus a warm solution of muriate tinc ture of iron, one part to seven of water; the patient at once fell into a collapse, which for half an hour was death-like; she rallied to die within less than a week of the metro-peritonitis which followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.