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

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    [ ] firm mafs. The hardnefs, tenfion, and fore- nefs of the abdomen of which La Motte's patient complained, when he firft faw her, are beft accounted for by fuppofing the peritoneum to have been injured, in confe- quence of the child having remained five or fix hours among the vifcera. Though in No. VI, there were no fymptoms that particularly pointed out the nature of the complaint, or that could excite much fear for the woman's fafety in the beginnings yet thofe which immediately preceded her death, could be referred to peritoneal in- flammation alone. The only circumftan- ces in Mrs. Manning's cafe which requi- red medical treatment, were fuch as feemed to arife from a fimilar caufe. Although the woman, No. XIII, lived five months after the accident, by which the uterus ap- pears to have been ruptured; yet me loft ftrength, and her health declined daily from that time: and on infpedting the body after death ; the foetid matter found in the ab- domen, the wafted omentum, the adhering vifcera, with the marks of former inflam-?