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* ] cloths, from the fifth day, which gradually Mened ; and her recovery was nearly as good as if no extraordinary accident had happened. No. IV. M. La Motte, Obfervation 312, Paris Edit. 1722, fays; He was called to a woman, who had been in labour two days : he found the pains were gone, though for eleven or twelve hours they had continued frequent, long and violent. The infant, which in the beginning had been firong and vigorous, after a ftrugglc fo dreadful as to throw the mother into convulfions, had no more been felt to move j and from that time, which was four or five hours before he faw her, the pains of labour had likewife ceafed. The midwife informed him, that the child had from the firft prefented fair, though fitu- ated high; and had neither changed its prefentation or advanced, during the action of pains, which appeared fuffkiently ftrong to have brought about delivery. On exa- mination, he felt the head of the child at