Observations on the rupture of the gravid uterus : with the sequel to Mrs. Manning's case / by Andrew Douglas, M.D.

  • Andrew Douglas
Date:
1789
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    [ ioi ] there cannot, I believe, any doubt remain, of the uterus being ruptured, (No. VII, IX, XI, XII, XV, XVI, XVII, XX, XXI, XXIII, and Mrs. Manning.) The labour- pain in confequence of which the rupture is fuppofed to have happened, is often de- fcribed by the patients as being fimilar to cramp; and as if fomething were tearing and giving way within them, (No. IV, IX, XVI, XVII, XXI.) It has been faid likewise, to have produced a noife which could be heard by the people prefent, (No. IX.) and we learn from Guillemeau and Crantz, and by a cafe which occurred to Dr. Savage, that the uterus may be rup- tured by the very pain which expells the child. 1 - i When the head of the foetus is wedged among the bones of the pelvis, or an arm entangled in the vagina or os externum, the cafe is deprived of its two moft diftinguifh- ing figns; the prefenting part will be pre- vented from receding, and lefs of the child tieing allowed to efcape by the rupture, it