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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    Thefe obfervations being only offered with a view to the improvement of the practice of midwifery, I have Hill one farther caution to add, and that is with regard to a method pro- pofed by feveral refpeCtable authors for pre¬ venting ruptures of the uterus* They tell us, that when from the fenfation of exquilite pain in any one particular part of the uterus, or when there is any particular obftruCtion of the paffages which may probably give occafion to long-protraCted, violent, and ineffectual throes, or when there is any thing that appears to us fo peculiar in the nature of the labour, or the conftitution of the woman, (which it is allowed to be very difficult to defcribe) that fhall in¬ duce us to fufpeCt a rupture of the uterus likely to happen, we are directed in that cafe to precipitate the delivery by turning the child* Now, befides the general objections, which always fubhft againft turning a child, where the head prefents in a contracted uterut, after the waters have been fome time paffed off; as I prefume the fymptoms threatening rupture can never be obferved, or even fufpeCted, before the child is clofely embraced by the Itrong con¬ tractions of the uterus, I ffiould fear the at¬ tempt to dilate it, and turn the child in fuch H 2 circura*