Case of an extra-uterine foetus. Communicated in a letter to Dr. Simmons / [Michael Underwood].

  • Michael Underwood
Date:
[1787]
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Credit: Case of an extra-uterine foetus. Communicated in a letter to Dr. Simmons / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■,t- C s>, ] % & * l could cafily give a number of cafes to which I have been witnefs, in fupport of this opinion, but none flronger than the one which happened to a patient of my late worthy friend Dr. Bromfield, whofe caution, fagacity, and ex¬ perience, were well known to many of his bre¬ thren. Whilft he was patiently attending the natural labour (which had not laded long) of a lady who had a well-formed pelvis, and had been the mother of feveral living children, on a fudden his patient gave an uncommon fere am, and, on examination, he found that the uterus had given way, and the child efcaped beyond his reach. This happened when the paffages were fully dilated, and when the head of the child was at the os externum, fo that the deli¬ very feemed to be nearly accoraplifhed. No very alarming fymptoms immediately followed the accident; and the patient was very cauti- oufiy, and with great eafe, delivered of a child that feemed to have been fome time dead. This was done by the advice of live phyficians of experience, three or four hours after the accident, but die furvived the delivery only thirty-dx hours. « It may, however, be conddered as a good general doctrine, that in all cafes of labour rendered