Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to women : Selected from the writings of British authors previous to the close of the eighteenth century / Ed. by Fleetwood Churchill.
- Fleetwood Churchill
- Date:
- 1849
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Credit: Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to women : Selected from the writings of British authors previous to the close of the eighteenth century / Ed. by Fleetwood Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![and in the second I know there was not : it therefore seems difficult to assign a good reason why these vessels should thus have given way. or, since they are liable to rupture, why such accidents do not occur more frequently. The gentlewoman who is the subject of the second history has lain in again, about three months ago, without being sen- sible of any inconvenience whatever, on account of the former accident. during the passage of the child's head, and to furnish this large quantity of hlood. And this opinion appears to he strengthened by those cases in which the accident happens before the delivery of the child, as the part just mentioned will suffer dis- tension before the head has escaped through the os externum. Mr. Crosse, in his Address, alludes to these tumours as the result of rupture of varicose veins, and we cannot deny that this is possihle. That the veins of the labia, the parts aboul the orifice of the vagina and the vaginal canal, do become varicose, and occasion considerable inconvenience, every one knows; but the frequency of this condition, compared with the rarity of the sanguineous tumours, is rather an argu- ment against the dependence of the latter upon the former. A priori, one would certainly imagine that veins in this condition would he more easily ruptured, either by additional distension or by the pressure of the child's head. Dr. Burns attributes the hemorrhage to the vessels of the nymphss, and Drs. Davis and Campbell to a rupture of the pudic vein.—Ed.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21030170_0536.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
