A new system of midwifery : in four parts : founded on practical observations ; the whole illustrated with copper plates / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, Robert Wallace, 1719 or 1720-
Date:
1786
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Credit: A new system of midwifery : in four parts : founded on practical observations ; the whole illustrated with copper plates / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    carriage : immediately below the heart and liver, the inteflines, &c. appeared in a triangular bundle, but not as yet To perfedt as to be diftinguifhed from each other. The funis was very large in propor- tion to the embryo, efpecially towards the placenta; but towards the embryo, the umbilical veffels were uncovered. I remember well to have feen an embryo about the age of this; the trunk ofwhofe body was.entirely open before; although the ex- ternal parts were fo well formed, that by the naked eye I could eafily fee the eyes, nofe, mouth, and four limbs. Mrs. Cummins, in Brentford, being feized with a haemorrhage Hiftory III. from the uterus, on the twelfth of December 1759, fent for me on the fourteenth, and informed me that the had had the misfortune to mifcarry often about the lecond or third month of pregnancy ; that fince the preceding Auguft, the catamenia had returned every three weeks very copioufly, excepting thelaft time : and that two days be- fore, being the time when fhe expedted them to return again, die was then feized as before mentioned, attended with pains, which becoming ftrong, feveral clots of coagulated blood were expelled, and not long afterwards fucceede-d by the difmiflion of an ovum which weighed two ounces and a half Troy. The form and magnitude of this ovum correfponded with A; the p]ate v length B was three inches, and the breadth C two inches. Excepting l',g- l' the flat fide D, it was covered with congealed blood, the texture of which was become fibrous, and of a whitifh colour on the outfide. This bloody lamella being removed, it feemed then to be all covered (except the fmailefl: end) with a finoothifli membrane : but having made an incifion longitudinally into its fubftance, from E to F, it proved to be only condenfed blood. From F to G there was an ob- long cavity encompafled with a fine blue membrane, which contained a fmall quantity of limpid fluid. In