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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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    [64 ] of contraSion which takes place. If the rupture fhould be fo fmall as to ad¬ mit the protrufion of part of the child only, a ftrifture will be formed upon fuch part as has efcaped, which will re¬ quire a confiderable degree of force to overcome, as, from its endeavours to expel the part which remains, the ute¬ rus will Hill continue to contraft. In performing the csefaream operation, M. Sou main found that the edges of the in~ eifion made in the uterus preffed fo clofe upon the fetus, that he could hardly get his fingers in to extraft-it*. Hence we may account for the alternate though meffeflual pains, which, in fome cafes, have been obferved to continue lor fome time after the rupture has taken place ; and I believe we may be led to form a probable opinion that, when this hap¬ pens, fome part of the child {fill re¬ mains within the uterus, * Mem. d* PAcstd. Chtmrg. Paris, mem. xx. The