Histories of singular cases of ruptured uterus and vagina / by the late Dr Ross ... ; communicated to Dr Duncan by James Carmichael.

  • Ross, Dr.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Histories of singular cases of ruptured uterus and vagina / by the late Dr Ross ... ; communicated to Dr Duncan by James Carmichael. 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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    The child was more extended from one hy- pochonder to the other; and the parts like- wife appeared, and were felt more diftinctly through the integuments than ufual. I was pretty certain, that the upper parts lay to the left, the feet to the right of the mo- ther ; therefore that the right hand was to be introduced. In palling up the hand, I met with a loofe pendulous body in the pelvis; which, as inteftines had been mentioned, I thought might poffibly be fuch, or the edge of the placenta. However, without particular ex- amination, I palfed my hand up behind it, and beyond the brim of the pelvis, without feeling the os uteri, or meeting with any other refiftance. The points of my fingers now touched the child immediately, with- out any intervening fubltance. On examining the part, I found it was an arm. I palfed along the body of the chiid, towards the woman’s right fide; and, get- ting to the extremity of a limb, I reached the right foot, which I brought gently down. The body eafily followed, without bringing
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