On effusions of blood in the neighbourhood of the uterus, or, The so-called periuterine haematocele : a thesis for the M.D. degree / by Henry M. Tuckwell.

  • Tuckwell, Henry M.
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1863
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    HISTORY. rpHAT blood can be poured forth from some one of the appendages of the uterus into the cavity of the abdomen, as a consequence of suppression of the menstrual flux, and there give rise to the formation of a tumour manifest to the sight and the touch, seems to have been already known to ancient writers; and offers to us of the present day another remarkable instance of how faithful descriptions and observations made in former times have been allowed to lie dormant for centuries, and in later years have been brought to life and unwittingly confirmed by the researches of modern investigators. Two quotations from Hippocrates % made by Yoisin^, would appear to warrant such a conclusion, as also a passage in Euysch^, to which Bernutz^ calls attention, and in which he states most clearly, in the year 1691, that he has seen blood pass from the cavity of the uterus through the Pallopian tubes into the pelvis, in cases of occlusion of the cervix uteri, and confirms his statement by a description of a _posi mortem examination that he witnessed. In an extract made by Puech^ from the Acta Medica BeroUni^j a clear case of hsema- tocele from rupture of the right Pallopian tube is related. Pelletan^ in the year 1810 published an account of a case thafc » Hippocr., 'EiriBrjix., Y. § 1, eV 'HAi'St, k.tA.; TvvaiK^tuv, I., iffTiv yaiv 4ir})if SlfXTjva . . . , Koi Kara r^v e5pr]u. ^ Voisin, De I'hcematocele retro-uterine, 1860. Ruyscbii, Ohservationum anatomo-chir., Centuria, Obs. 85. ^ Bernutz, Archives generates de medecine, 1848. ^ Puech, De Vhcematocele peri-uterine, 1861. ^ Acta medica Berolini, 1720, torn. ii. p. 120. ^ Pelletaii, Clinique cJiirurgicale, Paris, 1810, torn. ii. p. 106. B