A memoir on extra-uterine gestation / [William Campbell].

  • William Campbell
Date:
1840
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Credit: A memoir on extra-uterine gestation / [William Campbell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TREATMENT. Tus subject will be considered under four heads; first, the precautions required to retard or prevent laceration of the cyst; secondly, the measures necessary to moderate the he- morrhage after laceration; thirdly, the management after the extinction of foetal life; fourthly, the steps to be pursued for the emancipation of the foetus. As it may readily be gleaned from the cases offered in illustration of the ovarian and tubal varieties, and from a few of those of the ovario-tubal order, or what some people consi- der ventral gestation, that early laceration or sloughing of the cyst which contains the foetus, is fatal to the parent, and more especially when an ovary or tube is involved, a highly important object, therefore, must be to retard this destruc- tive process, until gestation is farther advanced; when, as is satisfactorily proved by examples belonging to the three or- ders just particularized, the event is by no means so disas- trous to the patient. Unfortunately, we are rarely aware of the presence of extra-uterine gestation, until lesion of struc- ture be so far advanced, that sloughing or laceration cannot be averted, or until these changes have actually happened. And as, moreover, some of the causes which must be admitted to accelerate these conditions are constantly in operation, such, for example, astheaction of theagents concerned in all the great functions of the animal economy, as respiration, the exonera- tion of the abdominal contents, and the various wnavordable corporeal exertions, the hopelessness will at once be perceived of our being successful in averting laceration or sloughing of the cyst. When, however, with the usual phenomena of preg-
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