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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    ON PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS. Convulsions and uterine haemorrhage are justly considered far more dangerous in their consequences than any other affections which depend upon pregnancy or parturition, and, as respects the practitioner, ai’e inseparable from the heaviest responsibility. There is, however, a very striking difference between haemorrhage and convulsions, alluded to by Dr. Joseph Clarke, in his admirable obseiwations on the subject, viz. the rare occurrence of haemorrhage in a case of first labour, whilst convulsions, though occurring under all circumstances of pregnancy, arise far more fre- quently in a first than in any subsequent gestation.* For the best account extant, of convulsions, we are indebted to Dr. Denman ; and the unsettled state of practice which he there complains of, remains very much the same at * In Clarke’s 19 cases, 15 occurred in the first pregnancy. In 48 cases recorded by Dr. Merriman, 36 were first cases. Of 30 recorded by Dr. Collins, 29 were first children, and 20 of these were males: 15 of the 30 patients were delivered by the natural efforts, and all recovered—5 cases terminated fatally. A large proportion of the cases contained in the present essay, arose in the first gestation. A