Syllabus of lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children / by G. Oakley Heming.

  • Heming, George Oakley.
Date:
[between 1830 and 1839?]
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Credit: Syllabus of lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children / by G. Oakley Heming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    o insertion into the placenta—blood-vessels, one artery and two veins—communicate frequently with each other in cases of double placenta—peculiarities of their distribution. Anatomical peculiarities of the Fcetus—of its hepatic, its respiratory, and its circulatory systems. ABORTION. If the ovum be expelled before the sixth month from the time of conception, the process is called abortion—if after, premature labour;—practical utility of this distinction —division of abortion into three classes: 1. From premature action of the Uterus— 1. From natural disposition; 2. From irritation of the Rectum ; 3. From diseases of the Uterus itself, or of the adjacent organs. 2. From premature detachment of the Ovum— 1. From accidents, blows, falls, injuries ; 2. From violent coughing, straining, &c. 3. From the death of the Fcetus— 1. From disease of the Fcetus ; 2. From disease of other parts of the Ovum ; 3. From diseases of the Mother. Symptoms peculiar to each class. In forming our prognosis, two points to be considered—the danger to the fcetus—the danger to the mother. It has been erroneously supposed by a distinguished writer, that when the uterus has once begun to contract, it necessarily continues to do so till abortion takes place. Generally supposed, that, where haemorrhagy is accompanied by intermittent pains, abortion inevitably occurs ;—some exceptions to this:—danger in great measure proportionate to the advancement of gestation;—in the prognosis, the cause upon which the threatened abortion depends, to be considered. Treatment consists—1. in at- tempts to prevent it;—2. in endeavours to conduct the