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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    pradice. A woman* with a well-formed pel¬ vis* mother of two living children* when in a natural labour* at the full time* with a very /large head prefenting, fcreamed out* and com¬ plained loudly of an excruciating pain in one particular part of the left hypogaflric region ; at the fame time that die feemed to be all over affeded with fpafms* fo as to give me very fe- rious apprehenfions that fhe might either fall into convullions, or fuffer a rupture of the ute¬ rus in that particular part. I* therefore* by cautious dilatation* and by affifiing the effed of every pain with the vedis* in as fhort a time as I could* with fafety to the parts* deli¬ vered her of a large living child* and die reco¬ vered without the lead accident. I think in any of thefe cafes, with the head prefenting* whilft the child is alive* we can be jufiified in promoting the labour only by a method fimilar to what I have mentioned, or by the forceps* if the head be within reach. If thefe fymp- toms occur before the dilatation of the os uteri* bleeding, in plethoric habits* or warm bathing* and opium, in cafe of irregular fpafm* may be ufeful. I can hardly fuppofe a cafe* with tht head prefenting, in which it would be expe¬ dient to turn* after the waters have been palled off f ■ l 4 i