Volume 1

Cases in midwifery : with references, quotations, and remarks ? / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West-Malling, in Kent.

  • William Perfect
Date:
[1781]-1783
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Credit: Cases in midwifery : with references, quotations, and remarks ? / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West-Malling, in Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    [ 4oi ] prolapfed by the force of the pains,' and pro- truded confiderably before the head of the child. This the midwife had miflaken for the funis; in the remifiion of pain I introduced my fingers, and replaced the vagina, but it prolapfed again with the next return of pain, and was re- duced as before. The child was foon after deliver- ed, and I had no farther trouble. This is a difor- der which very feldom occui's ; the prolapfion of the uterus at full time, is generally attributed to an extraordinary width of the pelvis; and that of the vagina to extreme weaknefs. THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
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