Cases of laceration of the uterus : with remarks / by Thomas Radford.

  • Thomas Radford
Date:
1867
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    CASES OF LACERATION OF THE UTERUS, WITH REMARKS. By Thomas Radford, M.D., &c., &c. HON. CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, MANCHESTER. Laceration of the uterus is one of the most dangerous accidents which happen to women during labour, and is amongst the most appalling to the obstetrician. Most of our best practical writers were of opinion as to the great fatality of this injury ; and until a certain period it was con- sidered by physicians to be the safest and wisest course which could be pursued to leave the case to the efforts of nature— amongst whom we may enumerate the late Dr. Hunter, Dr. Denman, and others. Dr. Douglass first ventured to differ from the opinions then generally entertained, and the successful termination of his (Mrs. Manning’s) case produced a wonderful revolution in the views then entertained as to the practice to be adopted in these dreadful accidents. The great fatality of this accident induced Dr. Denman to change his opinions, in his ‘ Observations on Rupture of the Uterus,’ published 1810, from those he had expressed in his ‘ Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery,’ fourth edition, 1805. This writer states that “ every instance of the kind which has come within my knowledge, and the number has not been inconsiderable, have perished” (i. e. mother and child). * Observations,’ &c., p. 17. As the opinions of Dr. Denman (who is deservedly esteemed an authority of the highest rank) are so contra- dictory in themselves on a subject of such great importance as the treatment to be adopted in cases of the rupture of the uterus, it is desirable to accumulate all the evidence upon the subject which can possibly be obtained. The relation, therefore, of fatal cases, and particularly where the bodies have been examined after death, by extending our
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