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 ] ful misfortune. A rupture, according to authors, has likewife been occafioned by- polypi and other tumors and excrefcences of the parts, No. XXIV, XXV, which by obftructing the paffage have prevented the uterus from acting on the contents, in a line according with its own axis, and that of the pelvis. It appears from a variety of inftances, that a rupture may happen in any part of the gravid uterus j but from the nature of the uterine efforts in the act of parturition, and from the relative fituation and form of the parts of both mother and child imme- diately concerned, there is reafon to believe that it is moft likely to take place in the inferior portion ; thofe parts which corre- fpond with the brim of the pelvis being more particularly expofed to injury, from ftretching, rubbing, and all the effects of preffure. Of cafes which have occurred within my own knowledge, the fundus has never been the part lacerated: yet violent and irregular contractions of the uterus,