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.
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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. 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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![Cliild- ren or Miscar- riages. Menstruation Tae- fore and at time of Attack. Previous Healtli. Onset, Sudden or G-radual Most marked Symptoms. Course ( Treatmi Expect; Operati &c. 40 41 4 child- ren, Imiscar- riage. 1 cMld. Weak. Robust. 42 27 6 cMld- ren. 43 44 27 27 1 child. 1 child. Tendency to me- norrhagia and leucorrhoea; menses not pre^ sent at time of attack. Cessation of catamenia three months before attack. Previously regu lar; attack eight days after cessa tion of period. Previously regu- Good, lar, discharge lasting eight days: at time of attack much di- minished in quantity. Previously pain- Good, ful and profuse; suppressed at time of attack. Sudden. Gradual. Good. Sudden, Violent pain, fever, rigors, nausea, difficult defoecation and micturition, pallor; tu- mour felt with difficulty above pubes, but behin' uterus. Pain, constipation, retention of urine, vomiting ; large tu- mour detected behind uterus: re-appearance of menses shortly before death ? Sudden. Sudden One attack of menor- rhagia three days after commence- ment ; symp- toms im- prove, but death from dysentery. Rapid in- crease of dis tress till death; dis- charge of al- tered fetid blood per rectum five days before death. Slight dis- ■ge of Leeches operatic Pain, gradually increasing, followed by vomiting; mic-v.ii.»i.5c turition and defoecation very blood per difficult; large tumour feltvagiuam,but in hypogast., blocking up and evidently distending recto-iiterine cul- de-sac so as to push the uterus against the pubes. coming from uter Pain in hypogast., constipa- tion, difficulty of micturi- tion ; large tumour felt above pubes and in vagina behind uterus and to left. Pain in hypogast., rigors sweating, nausea, constipa- tion ; large tumour felt above pubes and behind the uterus, which it pushed forward. Escape of blood per ectum. Escape of fetid blood on puncture followed by symptoms of pysemia. No opei tion. Incisior throng] poster! of the c uteri in tumouj cape of altered blood. No ope tion. Punctu III per vaf^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22270528_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
