An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus. Illustrated with cases / [Edward Rigby].

  • Rigby, Edward, 1747-1821.
Date:
1775
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Credit: An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus. Illustrated with cases / [Edward Rigby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] CONCLUSION. OF the foregoing cafes of flooding, nine were produced by a fepara- tion of the Placenta, occafioned by its being fituated on the Os Uteri, and which was therefore, in every one of them, unavoidable ; and nineteen were owing to a feparation of it, ariflng from feme accidental caufe. »■ Of the latter number it appears, that though many were very alarming cafes, as the patients loft large quantities of blood, and were extremely faint, not one proved fatal, not one but termi¬ nated fafely, by waiting for the efforts of nature to expell the contents of the womb *; whilft, in all the former num- * In two or three of the cafes included in the latter number, it happened, indeed, that the children came into the world footling, and confequently, that more manual afmlance was ufed than in natural prefentations ; but as this circumllance was totally accidental, and independent of