A case of extra-uterine gestation / by A.E. Aust Lawrence and Charles A. Morton.

  • Lawrence, A.E. Aust.
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[1893]
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Credit: A case of extra-uterine gestation / by A.E. Aust Lawrence and Charles A. Morton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A. E. Aust Lawrence, M.D. Aberd., Physician Accoucheur to the Bristol General Hospital, Lecturer on Midwifery and Diseases of Women at the Bristol Medical School, AND Charles A. Morton, F.R.C.S. Eng., Assistant-Surgeon Bristol General Hospital, and Pathologist Bristol Hospital for Children and Women. The following case is worthy of record, not only because the symptoms and signs enabled a diagnosis to be made with certainty before abdominal section, but also because of the conditions found in the gestation sac after its removal. S. B., aged 26, was admitted into the Bristol General Hospital, on October 4th, 1892, with the following history: She had last menstruated on July 4th ; symptoms of pregnancy then came on. On September 10th (seven weeks from last menstruation) she had a sudden attack of sharp abdominal pain, lasting two and a-half hours. Between this date and October 1st there were three more attacks of abdominal pain, during one of which (September 27th) she passed a fleshy membranous substance with the clots. This was the first hemorrhage. On October 1st there was again severe pain, and she became collapsed. Dr. Lawrence saw her on the 5th October. She was then very pale. The uterus was fixed, and