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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    [ 5^ ] from all violence, yet it may deferve confidera- tion whether the chance this may give of a fpeedy cure, may not be preferable to that long- protra&ed mifery, and diftrefs, which the un¬ happy woman muft undergo from a child re¬ maining long in the cavity of the abdomen, even if five fiiould be fortunate enough to fur- vive its expulfion through the parietes of the abdomen, or by the inteftines, fo many inilances of which I have had occafion to relate. Though fudden ruptures of the cervix uteri may be often lets dangerous than thofe near the fundus, yet there is one caufe of tranverfe divifion of the uterus, which, whether delivery be performed or not, is, I believe, always fa¬ tal-—I mean where the texture of the uterus is defiroved, and inflammation and mortification brought on by the prefliire, during labour, of the projecting procefs of the os iacrtim, or fharp ridges of the os pubis, or ilia, in a narrow pel¬ vis, againit the head or breech of the child.1 Of this I faw a very remarkable in fiance in Augufi, 1786. A woman, with a narrow pel¬ vis, had, at the full time, a breech prefenta- tion, and though fire did not fuffer the firong comprefling pains of labour more than twelve hours, yet, at the end of that period, and be¬ fore the os uteri was completely dilated, the whole