On the treatment of rupture of the female perineum, immediate and remote / by George Granville Bantock.

  • Bantock, George Granville, 1837-1913.
Date:
1888
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Credit: On the treatment of rupture of the female perineum, immediate and remote / by George Granville Bantock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE TREATMENT OF RUPTURE OF THE FEMALE PERINEUM. HISTOEICAL SUMMAKY. We are indebted for the first notice of any opera- tion for the restoration of a ruptured Perineum to the great French surgeon, Ambrose Pare\ in these words— and if it happen, as it sometimes does, that, after a forcible delivery, the genital parts of the mother are torn, and that the two openings are converted into one, then we should, by means of some stitches, unite the parts unnaturally separated, and treat the wound according to art.* Guillemeau, the pupil, the rival and contem- porary of Ambrose Pare*, reports the first case of perineal suture. This case was u successful, is given in detail, and is well authenticated (Roux). The next case on record is one by another French surgeon, Delamotte (Le Sieur de la Motte, t. ii., part iii., p. 1218 (1765) obser. ccccii.) who wrote * Ambrose Pare, (Euvres, ed. Malgaigne, t. ii., p. 718 (1561). B
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