Contributions to the mechanism of natural and morbid parturition : including that of the placenta praevia. With an appendix / by J. Matthews Duncan.

  • James Matthews Duncan
Date:
1875
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Credit: Contributions to the mechanism of natural and morbid parturition : including that of the placenta praevia. With an appendix / by J. Matthews Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    occurred. Its occuiTence may be admitted to be possible. I have ahvady stated my views as to the explanation of partial evacuation of the uterus and repeated discharges, on a basis that appears to me better than a mere admission of possibility of high rupture and valvular action. In the subject which has been discussed in this paper the great question for decision is, Why does not labour come on? AVhy do conditions which generally induce labour fail to do so in these rare cases ? The same question forces itself on us in the remarkable conditions called missed abortion, missed miscarriage, missed labour. In our present state of otter ignorance as to the cause of the coming on of natural labour, it is not to be wondered at that we cannot tell the cause of its failing to come on. But the two subjects may well be studied together, for it is highly probable that he who discovers the cause of natural labour coming on will also be at the same time able to explain why, in the rare abnormal cases to which attention has been here drawn, labour does not come on. Numerous lines of inquiry have been followed with a view to discovering the cause of the coming on of labour. To me there appears at present no more likely way of achieving this grand result than the circuitous one of endeavouring to discover the ^ cause of labour not coming on. In physiology we dderate the cause of natural labour. In patho]