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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    [ 4° ] On the third day, me complained of twitchings through the whole abdomen, and of great uneafinefs from a lump in her belly, which fell from fide to fide, feeming to burn as it moved. The friends then becoming anxious and uneafy, Mr. Pink- stone, a practitioner of fkill and expe- rience, was joined in confultation, who gave his opinion for the patient being deli- vered, as affording the moft probable chance of fafety, whatever might be the nature of the cafe. This advice was followed; ani though there was fome refinance from the os tineas to the introduction of the hand, yet the patient bore the delivery well, and no haemorrhage enfued. The placenta ad- hered to the lower part of the contracted uterus, near the cervix. From the time of delivery, a variety of fymptoms occurred; fometimes alarming, fometimes encouraging. She vomited por- raceous bile, complained of tendernefs and tenfion of the abdomen, and had frequent foetid ftools. After fome days, her pulfe