Case of inversion of the uterus after parturition, proving fatal in eighteen months : with a tabular statement of the results of cases treated by operation / by John Gregory Forbes.

  • Forbes, John Gregory.
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1852
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Credit: Case of inversion of the uterus after parturition, proving fatal in eighteen months : with a tabular statement of the results of cases treated by operation / by John Gregory Forbes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comparatively late period of life, the tendency to haemor¬ rhage is diminished by the natural cessation of the cata¬ menia. The latter fact is well illustrated by a case men¬ tioned by Lisfranc,1 who found this displacement in a woman seventy years of age, to whom, he states, it gave no inconvenience. It was not discovered until after her death, which was caused by pneumonia. She suffered neither from haemorrhage, leucorrhoea, uterine pains, nor difficulty in walking. Mr. Crosse3 gives references to some cases which had been traced to their termination, though many others of which he speaks were lost sight of. It appears that of twelve cases— 1 proved fatal at 8 months. 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 yy 9 yy yy 12 yy yy 22 yy 2 years yy 3 yy yy 4 yy yy 5 yy To these may be added Dr. West’s5 case, in which the patient survived twenty-nine, and that of Mrs. A. B., who lived eighteen, months. Dr. King4 also mentions the case of a lady who lived twenty years under this affection, though suffering from pain and frequent haemorrhages ; and Lamotte5 gives a case in which the inversion had existed for thirty years. It is worthy of notice that some have been the subjects of this accident in whom it occasioned but little or no distress, of which the following case, related by Boivin and Duges,6 affords an interesting example. The patient came under the care of Dubois on the 18th of August, 1825, 1 Clinique Chirurgicale, vol. iii, p. 380. 2 Crosse on * Inversio Uteri,’ p. 171, note. 3 Proceedings of Pathological Society of London; Session 5, 1850-1, p. 140. 4 Glasgow Med. Journal, vol. i, p. 172. 5 Bums’ ‘Midwifery,’ 1820, p. 501, note. 6 Traite Pratique des Mai. de 1’Uterus, &c., vol. i, p. 245.
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