Induced abortion, on account of extreme narrowness of the pelvis : prize essay of the medical faculty at Tübingen / abridged and published by Ferd. Rattenmann.
- Rattenmann, Ferd.
- Date:
- 1858
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Credit: Induced abortion, on account of extreme narrowness of the pelvis : prize essay of the medical faculty at Tübingen / abridged and published by Ferd. Rattenmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the operation icere performed cither before or soon after the breaking of the waters. For it cannot be denied, and it is fully proved by the cases reported in medical works, that mortality increases, the more time we allow to elapse between the breaking of the waters, and the operation. It is not necessary to show that the exhaus- tion of the mother, in delaying the operation, cannot be favorable to her, when we consider that the woman will only concur with us, when she herself is convinced of the uselessness of her vain exertions and the inelhcacy of all obstetric manoeuvres. But how is the foetus in the uterus effected by the delay ? The instances which we extract from Kayser, from the union medi- cale p. 74, are a striking proof of the injury which must result from it to the foetus. In his report he says ; Of 37 cases in which the operation was performed, either before or within six hours after the breaking of the waters, only 3 children died. When the operation was performed from 7 to 24 hours after, of 37 children 7 died. When operated upon 24 hours after, half the children were sacrificed. We should consider these results and also re- member, that according to general experience, one half of these children die before the 30th year. According to Villerme (Jour- nal union medicale p. 75) there died in France: I. In the first years of life: a) rich Departments 20°|0} according to others { foundlings poor do. 22°l„) even 80 to 90°J0 ) 600|o II. In the fourth year: a) rich Departments 31r|c, b) poor do. 330!0 III. In the twentieth year: a) rich Departments 42% and upwards. b) poor do. 50°]0. Besides this the child may die before the accoucheur is called in as operator, a circumstance by which one third of these chil- dren perish. Those, who like Bush and Moser, lay it down as a principle, that mother and child have equal rights, must exhaust all the means which experience and science offers them, to enable](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149331_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
