An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus: illustrated with cases ... / [Edward Rigby].
- Edward Rigby
- Date:
- 1786
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus: illustrated with cases ... / [Edward Rigby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
65/102 page 53
![when the mouth of the womb was fo much open. I afked her, if fhe had ever before found the Placenta in fuch a fituation; fhe told me fhe had never, till - now, been witha patient who flooded before delive- ry, though fhe had attended feveral hundred wo- men; but fhe believed this could be nothing elfe. CASE XXI. NOVEMBER 10% 1774, a midwife, with ae . “] have before frequently been, called upon me for my advice about a patient fhe was then going to, whofe name was Bailey, and with whom fhe had been the day before, at which time there was a flight flooding, which had been then checked by keeping her {till and cool, but the found it was at this time returned. “As I could: not conveniently go with her, I de: | fired her to be very careful in examining the patient, and to be fatisfied, whether there was any thing un- . ufual at the Os Uteri, in which cafe I defired her to fend for me; otherwife, fhe might fafely wait the coming on of pains, in the mean time keeping her cool, and in bed. She called on me the next day, to inform me fhe _ had purfued my advice, that the mouth of the womb was opening, but fhe found nothing there like what I had defcribed to her; fhe, therefore, agreeable to my directions, waited, and, notwith{tanding the continuance of the difcharge, fhe was fately and eafily delivered; by the natural pany, before the following morning.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29286797_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
