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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    [ '3' ] Although thefe inferences may be fairly deducible from what has been faid, yet cir- cumflances will frequently arife, in a cafe of fuch complicated danger, which will baffle all reafoning from general principles : for when rupture is the confequence of fome violent difeafe having affected the fub- ftance of the uterus itfelf, no advantage is to be expected from any meafure that can be tried. When the accident is attended with exceflive haemorrhage, death too ge- nerally happens before it is poflible with any certainty, to determine the nature of the complaint; and even if the haemorrhage mould not be fo violent as to deftroy the patient very fuddenly, it may be fo consi- derable as, by greatly diminishing the pow- ers of life, to make her recovery impoffible. Other caufes exifting in the conftitution, may contribute to render fuch an accident peculiarly fatal. The body being at this time in a ftate very fufceptible of ftimulus, whatever ads violently on the nervous fyf- tem, may have the power to produce effects