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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    C 66 ] difficulty. Caldani, of Bologna, in a letter to Haller, relates fome experi¬ ments made on the uterus of a bitch, which (how the great degree of contrac¬ tion that takes * place even after death, on any ftimulus being applied to it*. The nearer likewife the rapture hap¬ pens to the fundus or cervix, the greater degree of eafe or difficulty will enftte. In the firft inftance, the extraction will be made nearly in a direft line. In the other, and which mod commonly hap¬ pens, that part of the child which re¬ mains in the abdomen mu ft form an angle wTith the feet and legs, while they are palling through the vagina, and the deg rees of fuch angle will be decreafed or increafed, in proportion as the rup¬ ture may happen to be, either near the cervix, or further towards the fundus. Very little more exertion will be re¬ quired than what is obliged to be made * Vide Van Svvicten’s comment, fed. 1316. ufe