The compleat practice of men and women midwives: or, the true manner of assisting a woman in child-bearing. Illustrated with a considerable number of observations ... Translated from the original / [Paul Portal].
- Paul Portal
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The compleat practice of men and women midwives: or, the true manner of assisting a woman in child-bearing. Illustrated with a considerable number of observations ... Translated from the original / [Paul Portal]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 260 ] Upon an exaft view and touch I found it pretty hard, which made me tell Dr. Pafcal, that it certainly contained a foetus, or at leaft fome water. I opened it very gently, for fear of fpoiiing the foetus (if any fuch there fhould be) and in the midfl of it difcovered a thin- traniparent bladder, of the bignefs of a hazle- nut, in fhape not unlike an egg, full of a tranf- parent liquor, containing a fmall, white, and oleaginous fubftance, appearing like the firffc draught or beginning of a child, being of the bignefs only of a fly or a clove. Round about this bladder, which contained the foetus, I faw, within the membranous circumference, di¬ vers other bladders, refembling the fmall eggs you fee in the knots of pullets with eggs, or to a bunch of fmall grapes, all tranfparent, but of a different fize, the biggefl not exceeding the bignefs of a fmall pea. You might aifo compare thefe bladders to thofe raifed by burn¬ ing upon our fkin. The patient had told us, That, according to h r reckoning, Jl:e was three months gone with child. Jhe having not had her monthly times finee; but the foetus bearing not the lead: proportion to that time, it might be fuppofed that it died long before, for want of due nourifhment, oc- cafioned by the great quantity of coagulated blo< d, which lurrounded the membranes to the thicknefs of half an inch. The membrane or fkin which contained the liquid fubftance, was joined to the mufculous part by another fmall](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30526127_0288.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
