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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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 38 ] The uterus was fo contrabled, that it did not. exceed the fize or the placenta. Near the cervix, directly under the Bladder, there was a portion of mem¬ brane hanging down, about the thick- nefs of the differing knife, and not exceeding the breadth of half a palm, which was a part of the feparated ute¬ rus, 6 uteri abruptif The reft of the uterus, with its pro¬ per orifice* and the fecundines were re¬ traced, fo that it was totally feparated from the cervix, or ‘ Jinus muhtbris/ and all the other parts to which it had before been attached. He attributes this accident to the malconformation of the pubis, which was too much flattened * ..vO ‘I he above cafe requires no comment, as 1 think it is evident that there was a total reparation of the uterus, from its attachment to the vagina. # JBoncti ffpulchrct. anatom, lib, iii. fed 38. I remember