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

  • William Campbell
Date:
1840
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    T5L recovered.' In twelve cases of gastrotomy performed after the suppurative process was well advanced, ten of the opera- tions were successful.? Of nine women operated on, however, during the existence of foetal life, or soon after its extinction, the whole died.* By these fifty-one operations, only two children were preserved; and in one of these even, the details are too marvellous for belief.* When a head, breech, or foot can be distinctly traced through the walls of the vagina, the section of these, with a view to the preservation of the mother and child, promises to be more successful than an incision through the abdominal parietes with the same intentions. And as, from the cyst co- hering intimately with the peritoneum of the pelvic brim, we at once, by an incision through the walls of the vagina, enter the sac which contains the foetus, this must be a much more eligible operation in the cases particularised than gastrotomy, by which we unavoidably expose the whole peritoneal cavity. In nine cases in which the vaginal incision was practised, three mothers and their infants were preserved;° in two in- stances the mother only recovered ;°® on one occasion, the child 1 Cornax, l. c. Platerus, ].c. Manget. Thesaur. Anat., l. c. Cyprianus, |. c. ; Ruleau, Oper. Ces., l. c.; Phil. Trans., vols. iv.—viii., ix., x.; Hist. Acad. Roy. des Sci. 1776; Breyer. Comment. de Lips., Dec. 2, Suppl., p. 660; Weinhard, Hertog., Gassarus, Goney, Denys, Solingen, Spoering, Spren- gel, Hist. de Med., vol. vii; Med. Comment., Edin., vol. ii. p. 72 ; vol. xvii. p- 481; Med. Phys. Journ., Lond., vols, xxxv., xlix. viii. lix.; Med. Obs. Inquir., vol. ii.; Archiv. Gen., vol. ix.; Med. Rec. and Research. Lancet, 1835—36. * Hildanus, |. c.; Primrose, 1. ¢.; Rungius, Sprengel, His.. de Med. vol. vii.; Heister, vol. ii. chap. 113; Med. Fae. and Obs., vol. i.; Mem. Med. Soc. Lond., vol. iv.; Med. Chir. Rey. Lond., vol. iv; Archiy. Gen., vol. xxv. ; Archiv. Gen., June 1838; Journ. Med. Sci. Ed., No. 3, p. 223. 3 Mem. Med. Soc. Lond., vol. iii.; Comment..de Rebus., vol. xxxv. ; Journ. de Med. Chir. Pharm., &c. vol. xxii.; Nouv. Journ, de Med., vols. x. xv.; Bononiensi. Philadelphia Journ., ]. c.; Lond. Med. and Phys. Journ., vol. xiv.; Act. Lips., 1719; Med. and Surg. Journ. Lond., vol. iv.; Med. Chir. Rev. vol. iv. 4 Polinus, Mem., p. 3; Journ. de Med. vol. xv. 5 Med, Chir. Journ. vol. ii., a very marvellous American case. Med. Re- pos. Lond, vol. xii-; Archiv. Gen. vol. xxi.
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