Thomsonian practice of midwifery : and treatment of complaints peculiar to women and children / By J.W. Comfort, M.D.

  • Comfort, J. W. (John W.)
Date:
1845
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Credit: Thomsonian practice of midwifery : and treatment of complaints peculiar to women and children / By J.W. Comfort, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing, the posterior part of the vagina and perineum become dis- tended, so that there is a pouch-like projection between the pos- terior commissure and the anus. This projection is met by the prismatic or perineal pad, and returns the parts to their natural position, and furnishes a support to the vagina and uterus. Mrs. BelVs abdominal Supporter, which has been used with benefit by a great number of patients affected with prolapsus uteri, operates upon the same principle as Hull's Truss. Mrs. Bell's apparatus differs from Hull's in having a broad- er belt to pass round the body, without the iron band being en- closed, arid in a more broad, soft, and elastic perineal pad. (i Mrs. Bell's apparatus, in my opinion, is best adapted to lean females, and Hull's to those that are fat and corpulent.— Harris, SECTION II. INVERSION OF THE WOMB. [The womb turned inside out.] Inversion of the womb is an accident of very rare occurrence, so much so that it scarcely requires noticing here. It has been produced in a few instances by a rude and improper haste in at- tempting to pull away the placenta too soon after child-birth, the uterus being in a relaxed condition, and the placenta being still attached to its fundus. Dr. Meigs relates a case of inver- sion of the womb produced by a midwife drawing very strongly at the cord immediately after the birth of a child, the womb not having contracted; and the after-birth being still attached to the fundus drew down the womb, and the midwife seizing hold of the after-birth, and using great force to get it away, pulled
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