An essay on the retroversion of the uterus : illustrated with cases and observations / by William Cockell.

  • Cockell, William
Date:
1785
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Credit: An essay on the retroversion of the uterus : illustrated with cases and observations / by William Cockell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( [ 33 ] After talcing every previous ftep to facilitate die re¬ lation of tne uterus, I fet about it in die ufual way j it found the uterus fo faft wedged in the pelvis, that I as obliged to make many efforts before I could accorn- . ~ ■ * i ifh the reduction, the force required being very great, nd I muft obferve, that immediately before the uterus ceded, a Imart guiii of water came down upon iny .nd, which at the inftant I fuppofed could be nothing it the hquor amnii: of wliich I was convinced by what lowed. The uterus being replaced, the patient was put ' bed, and the ufual directions given. But when I called on her four days after, I difcovered fymptoms of an ap- Daching mifcarriage, which I foretold, and it accordingly ppened the next day. My patient foon recovered and in iort time after removed to a town called Kippax, about o miles diftanl, in a high dry fituation, where flie ac¬ red a more robuft habit of body. Since that time die ; had feveral children, without any return of the retro- •fio uteri, and now lives at Kippax in perfed health, rch-the firft, 178c, K I SHALL I , . |# * - ‘ * * • * ‘ ’ .1 - ' ' r r