Volume 2

An extraordinary case of lacerated vagina, at the full period of gestation. With observations tending to show that many cases related as ruptures of the uterus, have been lacerations of the vagina / [William Goldson].

  • Goldson, William
Date:
1787
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An extraordinary case of lacerated vagina, at the full period of gestation. With observations tending to show that many cases related as ruptures of the uterus, have been lacerations of the vagina / [William Goldson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ io ] Mrs, Wilkins was a large woman, much ufed to laborious exercife, of a dark complexion, about thirty-fix years of age, inclining to be lufty ; her cenfti- tution was naturally ftrpng, and general¬ ly healthy ; fhe was then in labour with her fourth .child; hex fo/mer labours had been always lingering, -but was, at each time, delivered of a living child, without, momythau. ,qrc|inary affiftance. During the pfefent pregnancy, fhe was not able,, to moye with fo .much eafe as with her former children, 'complaining of .much pain in the left hypogaflrium* rs k ? r '• ^ We were informed byMr. Waller, that he was called to her a ©ft a nee about a fortnight before ; but finding that the pains were fpurious, he ordered her an opiate, which gave her relief, and fhe continued eafy until the,preceding day ; when'’Being again fent to, about fix o'clock in the morning, he then found her in labour:, after waiting forpjp time^ the pains beginning to ehcreafe, he made an