The diseases of the foetus in utero : not including malformations; with an outline of foetal development.

  • Madge, Henry.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The diseases of the foetus in utero : not including malformations; with an outline of foetal development. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    femme grosse de cinq ou six semaines qui souffroit une disposition inflammatoire de la matrice, causee par plusieurs pernicieuses remedes dont elle avoit use se faire avorter/' 6th. Dune femme qui ayant une fievre continue depuis trois semaines, avorta d'un enfant de cinq mois et mourut deux jours ensuite/' Tth. D'une femme qu'apres avoir ete cruellement travaillee d'une colique nephre- tique, accoucha d'un enfant de sept mois mort en son ventre. In this case, Mauriceau remarks that the delicatesse of the child was unable to with- stand the great agitations to which it had been sub- jected by the parent's colic. The mother did well. 8th. D'une femme grosse de cinq mois qui apres une perte de sang durant plus d'un mois, avorta d'un enfant mort et vuida encore le jour ensuite une espece de faux germe tout corrompu.'' This patient had severe fever after the abortion, with tumid and tender abdomen, but the unfavourable symptoms soon subsided, and she did well. In the American Medical Transactions,'' fourth volume. Dr. Osborne relates a case in which an entire ovum of three months' development being expelled, the embryo was found to be five inches j in length, shrivelled in appearance, and attached by a cord ten inches long to a completely cartila- ginous placenta of two and a half inches diameter. Mauriceau gives numerous cases of abortion, where the foetus had been dead three, four, and ]