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 ] had receded, the placenta alone was to be felt, I apprehend but a (mail degree of doubt concerning the nature of the o cafe will remain. **• - • * #• After the body was opened, the ie- cundines as well as the child were found in the abdomen. As the placenta was to be felt on examination, after the rupture had taken place, how can it be fuppofed that the rupture was in the uterus ? The uterus mull have been at that time confiderably contradied, and the aperture fo much diminifhed, as to have rendered the efcape of the pla¬ centa impoffible. * Hence I am clearly of opinion, that the placenta being felt on examination, after the rupture had taken place, and being afterwards found in the abdomen, is a great proof that the accident was not in the uterus, but in the vagina. *