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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    [ 5° ] been occasioned by the prefence of fo confi- derable an extraneous body among the vif- cera; and to the hemorrhage. No. XII. Saviard. Obfcrvation xxv, page 131, gives the cafe of a woman who had been received into the Hotel Dieu in labour: The child, he fays, prefented fa- vourably, with every appearance that the labour would be foon finifhed; yet the pains continued two days without effect, and ceafed at once ; the .prefenting parts rece- ding. After two days more of fuffering, the poor woman died undelivered; having been much examined, yet nothing at- tempted for her relief. The detached placenta was, by fome of thefe examinati- ons, difcovered to prefent; the umbilical cord leading from it into the cavity of the abdomen. On opening the body, the child and fecundines were found among the vif- cera; the feet of the child touching the ftomach of the mother. The interlines were all fretted ; the omentum rotten and /linking: the womb not altered in its ap-