Volume 2

Observations on extra-uterine cases, and on ruptures of the tubes and uterus / [Maxwell Garthshore].

  • Maxwell Garthshore
Date:
[1787]
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Credit: Observations on extra-uterine cases, and on ruptures of the tubes and uterus / [Maxwell Garthshore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 55 ] we have an account of the total extirpation of the uterus; in the Memoirs of the Royal Me¬ dical Society at Paris another of the total extirpation of the ovarium ; and in the fame work we have an account of two fuccefsful Cav¬ iare an operations^. In fpite of all this, however, when I confider how very unfuccefsful the Car¬ fare an operation has been in this illand, under the belt management, and when I farther con- fider how extremely hazardous we find all ex- pofures, of the abdominal cavity, to the exter¬ nal air, to be, I own I think that even the lim- pler excifion I have been fpeaking of, ought ne¬ ver to be had recourfe to but where there is rea- fon to hope, from the abfence of inflammation,, and other dangerous fymptoms, that the mo¬ ther’s life may be faved by it; or where there is almoft a certainty of preferving the child : as this expedient appears to me, while the natural t paffages are undilated, to be not only a more pro¬ bable method to fave the child, but even a lefs hazardous one for the life of the mother. And though it mull be acknowledged that, in this country at leall, the prefervation of the mother feems moll likely to be effected by abilaining * Vol. IV. page 296. f Vol, II. pages 236 & 241, 3 from