Volume 1

Facts and cases in obstetric medicine, with observations on some of the most important diseases incidental to females / By John T. Ingleby.

  • Ingleby, J. T. (John Thomas), 1794-1845.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Facts and cases in obstetric medicine, with observations on some of the most important diseases incidental to females / By John T. Ingleby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6] the treatment. After several days, in which little varia- tion was observed, the case terminated fatally. A post- mortem examination was refused. Cas—E XXXV.—A woman, aged 35, and cook in a re- spectable family, complained on the Sunday evening of violent pain in the stomach, for which she took some brandy, and retired to her bed-chamber. At nine o’clock the following morning, she was found on the floor, dressed, (not having been in bed,) insensible and convulsed. A full-grown dead child, covered by a cloth, lay under the bed, and the placenta and a quantity of blood was con- cealed in a bucket of water. The funis was lacerated near the child’s body. A neighbouring surgeon had bled the patient to the amount of Ziv. without relief. I saw her immediately afterwards: she was quite insensible; vio- lently and frequently convulsed, with intervening coma ; the pupils were dilated, the pulse was feeble, the skin pale, and the tongue much wounded. A dose of calomel and croton oil was swallowed, though with difficulty, and a colocynth enema administered, the operation of which speedily occasioned a partial recovery of the senses. This was followed by a single application of leeches to the temples, the spirit lotion, and saline purgatives with tartar emetic. In a few days she had perfectly recovered. Since the foregoing pages were written, I have had an additional proof of the efficacy of the tartarized antimony in the sthenic ‘form of eclampsia, the attack taking place within a very short period after delivery. The agency of this medicine is of singular value; for, whilst it lowers inordinate action, it does not produce those