Volume 2

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

  • Garthshore, Maxwell, 1732-1812
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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    off long enough to allow the uterus to embrace clofely the body of the child, unlefs in that of a very dangerous flooding, in cafes where the funis prefents, and its pulfation is perceptible, or where the uterine contractions are too inert to aCt properly in the expulfion of the child : in neither of which cafes is the contraction of the uterus ufually fo ftrong as to render the ne- ceflary dilatation very dangerous. I have undeflgnedly extended this paper to a length I did not think of when I began it; I mu ft, therefore, delay fome farther obferva- tions I have to make on ruptures of the uterus till a future opportunity. $/» Martin's Lane, Sept. 20th, 1787, T HE E N D*