Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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    fingers may be very cautiously insinuated between the edge of the placenta and uterus, which must be slowly and tenderly separated. The hand should never be withdrawn until the object is completely effected, and uterine contractions excited. It is of great importance to remove every portion of the placenta, if it can be done without violence ; or hectic fever, or inflammation of the uterus, or haamorrhage may supervene and destroy the womau. In some cases a very small piece has induced fatal results, either by hajmorrhage or irritative fever. [Adhesions, in some very rare instances, have oc- curred between the Chorioii and Decidua, and inter- fered with the expulsion of the placenta. Fortu- nately, these adhesions can be easily broken down by means of the hand. — J. M. W.] PRETERNATURAL LABOURS. Under this class the following StX orlJCrs will be treated of: — First. Protracted labour. Second. Those labours in which any other part than the head presents, such as the breech, feet, hands, funis, &c. Third. Labours with a plurality of children. Fourth. Labours attended with convulsions. Fifth. Labours with uterine hemorrhage. Sixth. Labours in which laceration of the uterus or contiguous parts occurs.