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

  • Michael Underwood
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[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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    C 48 ] and inexperienced, if fpeedy delivery be incul* cated as giving the bell chance of recovery in all cafes where the uterus is ruptured. There can be no doubt that by an over caution, ap¬ proaching to timidity, patients may fometimes be fuffered to die who would probably recover by a bolder practice. But this is not the com¬ mon fault of the young and inexperienced ; for in them we more generally find a natural propenfitv to activity, and a delire to affift, which, in midwifery, is infinitely the more dam gerous extreme; and it is perfectly well known that caution and the leaving much to nature, which are fo effentially neceffary in this prac¬ tice, are the ufual effeds of age and experience,, and are certainly the beft general rules, though not without exceptions with refped to the lat¬ ter, which ought only to be made from the dic¬ tates of found judgement, matured by accurate obfervation. I will venture to go hill farther, and to de¬ clare, though with the utmofl diffidence, that if I could be allured of the child,s being alive, I would join in opinion with Bartholine, Affruc, Roederer, Plenck, Levret, Baudelocc[ue, and many others, that it appears to be a fafer method, and likely to give the woman a better chance ©f recovery, to divide the parietes of the abdo- men#