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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    C *8 ] days, and which appeared afterwards to have been the cafe, from the repara¬ tion of the cuticle, prefented with its hands bent behind its neck, and the face obliquely upwards towards the pubis. The fymptoms becoming more and more violent, (he being not only faint and feverifh, with opprefhon on the prsecor- dia, attended with rigors; but having vomited up feme green feces, which arofe, he fays, from the fetus preffing upon the reclum, fo that they could not find their paffage thence, Cornelius Solingius, an experienced furgeon, was fent for with him to her relief In a fhort time, he delivered her of a dead child. As he could not ealily bring away the after birth, he introduced his hand along the funis, but found that it was in contact with the inteftines, before it came to the placenta; which was found, foon after, hanging down, in within the abdomen, out of