History of a case, terminating successfully, in which an inverted uterus was extirpated / by Alexander Hunter.

  • Hunter, Alexander.
Date:
1799
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Credit: History of a case, terminating successfully, in which an inverted uterus was extirpated / by Alexander Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    except when her water troubled her. Slept well, and had a tolerable appetite. As it was not probable, that the water could come away without affiftance, in the piefent lituation of the tumor, and as the pa- tient was at a confiderable diftance from me, I inftrudled a neighbour of her’s how to ufe the catheter; and determined to wait the further progrefs ot the difeafe. On the eighth day after delivery, her huf- band came to me in a great hurry ; and told me, that the lump was come down, but that the end of it was ftill fall. I went to her, and found the tumor pro- truded ; and, together with it, the whole body of the uterus completely inverted. Pains, iimilar, and nearly of equal ftrength, with thofe in labour, had come on, about hall an hour before the protrufion. As 1 had never feen any cafe of inverfion, it gave me much alarm. With fome difficul- ty, the lump was feparated from the fundus uteri, to which it ftrongly adhered. I endea- voured then to reduce the inverfion. But, af- ter ufing every mean that I could think ot, and fometimes confiderable force, lor about two 1