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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    Is] tris fecJio, quia aliter exire aut eximi nequit, at que alias mater et feet us, brevi moriun- tur. Jt is likewife Van Swieten's opinion : ff Si, utero rupto, totus infans in ca-vo ab- domine htereat, tunc partus impojjibilis eft, et fola fupereftfeblio Ca/area. Thefe quo- tations will ferve to prove what were the fentiments of medical men refpecting this accident, in the period immediately prece- ding the prefent; fince they had nothing to recommend but an expedient almoft as barbarous and as hopelefs, as abandoning the patient to her fate. This fupinenefs and defpondency in cafes of ruptured uterus, has acquired in our time, additional influence from the opinion of the late Dr. Hunter. It feems to have been one of thofe, in which he was averfe to attempt any thing from an un- willingnefs to give pain, where he defpaired of being able to do good. Early impreffed with a conviction of the pernicious confe- quences which might refult from too fre- quently recurring to the application of arr