A case of extroversion of the bladder in a female child : with dissection / by Francis Henry Champneys.

  • Champneys, Francis Henry, Sir, 1848-1930.
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[1877]
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Credit: A case of extroversion of the bladder in a female child : with dissection / by Francis Henry Champneys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, Vol. XIII] EXTROVERSION OF THE BLADDER IN A FEMALE CHILD, WITH DISSECTION. At the latter end of February I was called by one of the mid- wives employed in my out-patient department of Queen Charlotte’s Hospital to see a child, born February 14, 1877, which she said Avas afflicted with a tumour such as she bad never seen or read of. She added that the parents were very anxious to have it cut off. On my arrival, I found what I had expected from her descrip- tion—an extroverted bladder—and then learnt the following facts:— The mother was aged eighteen, the father twenty, a labourer; both were healthy as far as could be ascertained; there was no liistory of congenital deformities on either side, nor of syphili.?. This was the first child, born at full time. There was no history of maternal impressions. The labour was an easy and natural one, only lasting three ant{ a half hours. Eepeated inquiries elicited the fact that the navel- string was split, just before reaching the child’s body, into two cords ; it separated naturally on the fifth day. There was no ad- hesion of the membranes to the belly or any part of the body. The child had always strained since birth, and on the seven- teenth day a prolapsus ani occurred. Three weeks after birth a rash appeared round the chin, some- what scaly; the palms of the hands were rough, and were said to have been so since birth. No snuffles. Nothing distinctive in the way of a rash round the anus, though all the skin on the buttocks and thighs was dusky red, probably from urine. VOL. XIII. • F A CASE OF FEANCIS HENEY CHAMPNEYS, M.B.