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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    L ] intenfe thirft, and that (he had been eonftantly vomiting. Her countenance was greatly altered; the quantity of fluid thrown up was out of all propor¬ tion to the quantity drank; thetenefmus ftiil continued^ but without any evacu¬ ations ; her anodynes were repeated, and an opiate glyfter ordered to be in- jetted in the evening. —-23d.-—We found her more com- pofed, and we under flood flie had been fo through the greater part of the night. She continued in the fame Rate until about eleven o’clock before noon* when fte died, perfettly fenfible. We obtained permiffion to open the body the fame evening. The abdomen was muck tumified. Upon making a longitudinal incifion through the integuments, a quantity of confined air rufhed out. The perito¬ neum' was inflamed^ and in fome places beginning to iphacelate. The inteftines were