Parturition and its difficulties : with clinical illustrations and statistics of 13,783 deliveries / by John Hall Davis.

  • Davis, John Hall.
Date:
1865
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    by the head, and was born living without unusual assist- ance. There had been no morbid adhesion of the placenta, and the inversion, it appeared, had occurred quite spon- taneously. Prolapsiott oe the Eectttm [one case] several inches. It occurred during the latter part of the child's transit through the passages, and was easily reduced after delivery by steady and gentle pressure. OTHER COMPLICATIONS. Of collapse, after a sudden delivery of twins, in a sub- ject greatly weakened by scanty nourishment in pregnancy ; fatal, with very slight haemorrhage, one case. Of retention of urine, two cases, both under face presentation. They did well after use of the catheter, about three pints of urine being drawn off in each. Of great excess of liquor amnii, interfering with due action of the uterus, one case. The waters were ac- cordingly discharged, upon which vigorous pains set in, and the child was quickly born. Of amaurosis during pregnancy and labour, one case in a primipara; no depletive treatment indicated, sight returned after delivery, and the patient did well under the ordinary puerperal management. Of delirium in protracted labour, one case during the latter part of the second stage, of short duration; and as the child was at this time advancing rapidly, under efficient pains, it was not deemed necessary to apply the forceps. Of hemiplegia, complicated labour, one case, which had supervened from disease of the nervous centres six weeks before this, her tenth labour. Patient aged 33. The child was born living, without operative interference, and was yet living nine months later. The mother, notwith- standing good nursing and nourishment, died of exhaustion fourteen days after delivery.