Four cases of psychosis after surgery

Abstracts. Review of Obstetric and Gynecological literature: French.
Marx .—- Sur quatre cas de folie post — operatoire .— (La Revue medicale. 1898, No. 204) .— Four cases of psychosis after the operation.
The author expresses the following provisions: 1) postoperative psychoses are observed only in women, and the nature of the operative intervention here does not matter (in fact, ossification does not cause severe mental disorders); 2) chloroform on the one hand and the suppressed state of the patient's nervous system before the operation — on the other hand, are the main predisposing moments in this case (this also includes the general decline in nutrition, anemia, etc.), 3) all postoperative mental disorders, starting from simple to a severe form of melancholy, they have a temporary character, passing