A case of inverted uterus / by A. Hamilton.

  • Alexander Hamilton
Date:
1791
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A case of inverted uterus / by A. Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The publication of it may therefore prove ufeful. In the year 1777, a midwife (who died feveral years ago) attended the labour of a lady, who before had been the mother of fe- veral children. The labour was as favourable as could be wiflied, and, after a few hours, a living child was born. At that time, however, the mid- wife received a preffing meffage from another patient, which induced her to extra# the placenta as expeditioufly as fhe poflibly could. The violence with which this was accom- plifhed, gave the patient very great torture, fucceeded by pains refembling the throes of labour, attended with much draining, bearing down, and fuppreffion of urine, along with a confiderable degree of haemorrhagy. Thefe fymptoms continued for nearly thirty- fix hours, during which time the midwife was abfent. From the report of the attendants on her return, Ihe allured the patient, that (he had another child to bear, which, (lie added, eafily accounted for what fhe had differed. Having paffed her hand within the vagina, fhe felt a round hard fubftance. This con- firmed
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