Caesarean section and its modifications : with an additional list of five cases / by Murdoch Cameron, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Glasgow University.

  • Cameron, Murdoch.
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[1901]
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Credit: Caesarean section and its modifications : with an additional list of five cases / by Murdoch Cameron, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Glasgow University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The patient made a good recovery. She had a little sick- ness on the third and fourth days, when the temperature thrice registered 100’2° F. After that it never rose above 100°, and fell to normal after the ligatures were discharged from the vagina on the tenth to the twelfth days. She left the hospital in the seventh week after the operation perfectly well. The description given beforehand may be applied to all these cases so far as regards the operation, but it may be mentioned that the infant in the fourth case developed icterus of a severe type. Purpura spots appeared on the face, and the child rapidly got weaker and died the following day. One point of note happened in the fifth case, namely, a slight difficulty was experienced in removing the after-coming head of the child from the uterus owing to its being grasped, not by the uterine wound, but by the retraction ring. This complication was easily overcome, but as I have never heard or read of such a fact, I here state it, recognising that such a con- traction miglit readily form a delay during the second stage in a normal labour.
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