General medical report of the obstetric department of the gynecological clinic at the Imperial University of Warsaw for the period from January 1, 1874 to March 15, 1885

Introduction. The obstetric and gynecological clinic at the University of Warsaw, functioning as such, from 1869 to the present, has only for a relatively short period of time a report drawn up by the former resident of the clinic, Dr. I. I. Fedorov. This report partially fills this gap. The report includes the time from January 1, 1874 to March 15, 1885, that is, until the day of entry into the management of the Warsaw obstetric clinic by prof. N.V. Yastrebova. At the reporting time, the clinic was until 1884 under the direction of prof. Tyrkhovskaya, and from 1884 to March 15, 1885 prof. L. Neugebauer. The material for this report was collected only from the records found in the so-called control books of the Midwife Institute according to the generally accepted plan for such reports. Mournful sheets of time running the clinic prof. We had no opportunity to use Tyrkhovsky, because for reasons unknown to us, they were not in the archives of the clinic. Therefore, some sections of this report, as will be seen from the following, are far from complete, others were not developed at all due to incomplete data (for example, data on estates, employment, on the legality of birth and causes of death of children, etc.), or were developed only from a general point of view (for example, data on presentations, operations, etc.); so for example, in the section of this report on labor complications, no mention is made of complications of labor with a narrow pelvis, since in most cases it is mentioned in the records only by such a general phrase as "strictura pelvis", occasionally with a designation of the degree of contraction (in I, II , III gradu), in other cases marked or only conjug. externa, or, finally, in comparatively very few cases, conjug. vera; about dist. spin and crist. not mentioned at all; with all this, the dimensions are given for the most part in Polish inches (cale), rarely in centimeters.