Pathological inquiries and observations in surgery, from the dissections of morbid bodies. With an appendix containing twelve cases on different subjects / [Richard Browne Cheston].
- Cheston, Richard Browne
- Date:
- 1766
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pathological inquiries and observations in surgery, from the dissections of morbid bodies. With an appendix containing twelve cases on different subjects / [Richard Browne Cheston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Child to the Birth, the Membranes as. turgid and tenfe, and the real Waters afterwards evacuated as though no fuch prior Difcharge had happened: Does not this proceed from a Col- leGtion in the Cavity of the Uterus, which the foft and yield- ing State. of the Os Internum at. this. Time fuffers to be difcharged * ? .Mauriceau’s Opinion however upon fuch Cafes, appears too fingular to be overlooked +. ! << A Woman, fays he, was delivered, after.a quick La- bour,.of a:Child-in perfect Health, though about two Months before fhe: had voided -by the Womb. in one.Day more. than a Quart of Water, and had continued from that Time -to void more at: Intervals.—It.may be a Matter of Doubt, whe- ther all the Waters thus.difcharged came from a kind of Hy- drops Uteri, or whether. they were the true Waters of the Child.. Had. they been the latter, the Woman mutt have been delivered after their firft. Difcharge, becaufe the Infant could not have remained. in the Womb after fo great. a Dif- charge of its Waters.. Neverthelefs.] am of an Opinion that.’ * Dalciffima atque chariffima conjux mea, .dum feptimo utero geftaret, ftatim ab initio geftationis, preter modum atque confuetudinem debilitata enervataque fuerat. Dolores ventris, et precipue dextri lateris, maximi ac frequentes aderant. Circa regionem hepatis per intervalla, et quotiefcunque foetus in utero fefe movebat, frigus moleftum ac. dolorofum perfentiebat. Interim venter in monfltrofam magnitudinem intumefcebat. adeo ut ipfam duos aut tres ad minimum enixuram foetus, cundé arbi- trarentur, Spatio hebdomadum fex ante partum, crura pedefque hydropicorum more intumuerant, quinetiam dolores tum ventris, laterifque dextri, tum quoque renum et crurum, adeo audti fuerant, ut noétes diefque continuo ejulare, atque la- mentari coa¢ta effet, letumque amplius fibi egredi non liceret. Die 2. Martii anno, 1605, dolores parturientium, quamvis leviores, continui tamen ipf{am inveftaverant, qui fenfim accreti, ufque ad quartam diem ejus menfis, qua circa feptimam vefper- tinam dolore vehementiflimo correpta, os uteri apertum, indeque ultra libras 18 mercatorum, aguz limpidifiime, nulloque cruore admixto, maximo ac uno impetu effluxere atque in ifto motu fcetus, ad exitum fefe paraverat. Et poftquam per femi- . heram quieviffet, et aliquantum confeétionis alkermes, cum aqua cinamomi, fine vino deftillata, diffolute fumpfiffet, rurfus dolore et conatu maximo correpta effet. Tum primo aqua, qu fcetum comitari folet, ad libras novem effluxa, inftante nona vef- pertina, puellum fimul peperit robuftifimum.—Hildanus, Cent, 2. Obferv. 56. + Mauriceau, Obfer. 688. fome:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30409263_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
