Extra-uterine pregnancy : a discussion with an appendix reviewing Mr. Lawson Tait's Ectopic gestation and pelvic hematocele.
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- 1889
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Credit: Extra-uterine pregnancy : a discussion with an appendix reviewing Mr. Lawson Tait's Ectopic gestation and pelvic hematocele. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ECTOPIC GESTATION AND PELVIC HEMATOCELE CONSIDERED IN THE LlGHT OF Me. TAIT's VlEWS—BEING PRINCIPALLY A DISCUSSION OF THESE AS ENUNCIATED in His Lectuees on this Subject.1 AN EDITORIAL REVIEW. [From the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, March, 1889.] In the light of his achievements in the surgery of ectopic gestation, no future consideration of this subject can be approached without due acknowledgment of the value of Mr. Tait's contributions toward the clearing up of doubtful questions of this hitherto much discussed, though little understood, bete noir of abdominal surgery. The lectures that are taken as the text of these remarks—chiefly in the nature of a review—are the most important addition to the literature of the subject since the appearance of Bernutz and Goupil's Memoirs. This book, as Mr. Tait most justly remarks, has received by far too little notice, containing, as it does, a basis scientifically correct for the pathological study of aberrant gestation ; while, on the other hand, from the point of treatment, it is absolutely of no value whatever, barely suggesting, as it will be found, the possibility of the success of surgical interference. In this connection, it is interesting to note that the passage of the electric current through the fetal sac is suggested by these authors as a vague possibility of benefit. The use of this agent in extra-uterine pregnancy will be referred to further on. Mr. Tait's views as to the pathological changes in the tubes, the retention of the ova thus being made possible when impregnated, though not capable of exact demonstra- fV^sT/11 TPTre?nan^ and Pelvic Hematocele. By Lawson Tait, ham, etc g Pr°feS9°r °f in Q«een«. College, Birming-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20420924_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
