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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    same coitus; or, to the existence of two uteri in the same woman ; or, to impregnation taking place whilst the uterus contains a blighted foetus; or, to a second impregnation during one cestrum. EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCIES, Or, as the title imports, gestation carried on in some other parts than the uterus, as in the abdomen, Fallo- pian tube, or ovarium, is scarcely less curious and mysterious than the subject of superfcetation. [The most common of these forms is the tubal va- riety. A very rare kind occasionally occurs, termed the Interstitial or Parietal, in which the ovum is arrested in that part of the Fallopian canal which lies imbedded in the fibres of the uterus.—J. M. W.] In these matters, theory must be a most uncertain guide; and it is only from a well-arranged accumu- lation of observations that we can expect light to be thrown on these occasional deviations from the ordi- nary progress of nature. As yet, no facts have been advanced which satis- factorily substantiate the occurrence of abdominal (Testation ; and it is more than probable, that in those cases which are termed abdominal or ventral preg- nancies, the foetus does not exist in the belly from the commencement of utero-gestation, but escapes into the cavity of the abdomen from the uterus, cither by ulceration or laceration of its parietes.