Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele / by Lawson Tait, F.R.C.S., Edin., & Eng., LL.D.
- Lawson Tait
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele / by Lawson Tait, F.R.C.S., Edin., & Eng., LL.D. 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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![(c) to extirpate worthless appendages, and {d) to overcome septic conditions. I have now to conchide this important branch of my subject by submitting a list of the cases, properly autlienticated, as tlie custom now is, in which I have ])erformcd this operation up to time of writing. The number is thirty-nine,* and I need hardly say that this number includes every case of the hind I have dune. There have been only two deaths. The first was due to my want of appreciation of the proper principle of the operation, and the second was due to the fact that the patient was practically in articulo mortis when I operated, interference having been too long delayed. The results on this list show a very different possibility of prognosis in this dreadful disaster when promptly treated on sound surgical principles, from that so hopelessly pronounced by Dr. Parry when tliey are left alone: From a careful examination of this subject it must be acknowledged that a happy termination of the rupture of the cyst is exceedingly rare. Of 149 cases in which the ovum was located in that portion of the tube which does not traverse the tissues of the uterus, 145 died. * The full number is forty, including the c.xtra-x)critoneal case given on p. 32.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21448048_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
