[An essay on the uterine haemorrhage] / [William Saunders].

  • William Saunders
Date:
[1789?]
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Credit: [An essay on the uterine haemorrhage] / [William Saunders]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9*. admit frefh air into the room, by which means the difcharge confiderably leffened; I gave her an anodyne, directed the cooled: drinks, and left her, defiring to be called upon return of either pain or hooding. In the evening I was fent for again, when I found the latter had returned, and in an increafed quantity, infomuch that the woman was extremely faint and languid; the Uterus was, however, now rather more open, and fome fight pains were coming on, ^and upon examining whild {he had one, I was juft able to perceive the membranes prefting again ft: the mouth of the Uterus; I introduced the {harped end of a probe along my finger and pierced them, the flooding became lefs immedi- ately, and fome pains following foon after, die was fafely, and with great eafe, deli- vered by them of a living child: the Fu- nis being finall and tender, broke upon the fird gentle effort to draw the Placenta by it, but by waiting about half an hour, N 2 , it