Observations on obstetric auscultation : with an analysis of the evidences of pregnancy, and an inquiry into the proofs of the life and death of the ftus in utero.

  • Kennedy, Evory, 1806?-1886. [from old catalog].
Date:
1843
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Credit: Observations on obstetric auscultation : with an analysis of the evidences of pregnancy, and an inquiry into the proofs of the life and death of the ftus in utero. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    since. Experienced no other symptoms of the child's death. Is in perfect heaUh, her breasts full and tense. Dr. Whitestone assisted me in examining her with ihe stethoscope, and upon repeated hivesligation, neither of us could detect the foetal heart, but an abrupt and cir- cumscribed pulsatile souffle was observable low down and at the right side. This woman was delivered of a dead, shrivelled, and putrid child, three days after our examining her. Sept. 2, ] 830. I was called to see Mrs. in Mecklenburg-street, who was suffering from deranged digestion. Suspecting pregnancy in this case, the ste- thoscope was applied, when a distinct foetal heart and soyffle were detected, and to her great astonishment I pronounced her pregnant, a circumstance that she had not the slightest suspicion of. She appeared to be in about the fifth month. I did not see her again until the 13th of October, when she sent for me in consequence of a discharge of liquor amnii. About ten days previously she had been very much alarmed from her husband having met with a serious accident, since which time she had been complaining. Having placed her in bed, the ste- thoscope was applied, and upon the strictest scrutny neither foetal heart nor souffle could be detected. I, therefore, had little doubt of the child's death. She was delivered in the course of the night of a foetus at about ihe seventh month, which exhibited all the appearance of having been for some days dead. There was scarce- ly a drop of blood discharged in this case, the foeto-pla- cental circulation having in all likelihood been obstruct- ed for some time before her confinement. Many similar cases, observed by the author, could be
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