Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees].

  • Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1809?]
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Credit: Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 37 ) proceeds, and the foft preffure of the liquor amnii are fo important for accomplifhing this purpofe, that the labour is inevitably tedious when thefe advantages are loft. The attempt to remedy this inconvenience is followed by worfe confequences, for by the effort to dilate the mouth of the womb, and the repeated application of undluous fubflances, that difpofition is deftroyed, I will venture to affert there is no part which an accoucheur has to perform that requires more judgment, gentlenefs, or difcrimination, than the dilating the os uteri when the waters have prematurely difcharged; and therefore I truf]; I fhall be indulged in dwelling a l/ttje longer n the fubjedt, although it has fo often been treated on by far more eminent authors. The preiTure of the membranes do not ap- pear to me fo much calculated to dilate the mouth of the womb as to preferve its capacity when it is dilated ; thus as it begins to relax, the waters fall down and prevent its recover- ing its fituation when an additional contrac- tion takes place. In
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