An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling in one or both of the lower extremities which sometimes happens to lying-in women.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1801
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling in one or both of the lower extremities which sometimes happens to lying-in women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    '■> Uw ti (( it te t M ] CASE II. What one has seen, pefhaps, by u singular chance, he is nevertheless “ apt to consider as the most natural or u frequent occurrence. The rude exer- tion of niatiual operation, or the vio- lent efforts of the child, are described u as the most frequent cause of the rup- ture of the ufetus. But in a case of this kind, which I met with, when u the child’s arm projected into the *'* belly, amongst the viscera, the cause “ Was on dissection found to be very dif- u ferent; for the pelvis being extremely “ narrow, little more than an inch in Width, the uterus by me continued pres- sure betwixt the him of the pelvis and the child's head, had been destroyed in the. course of a tedious labour System of dissections, by Charles Bell, part third, p. S9. a a a it Dr. Hull in his second letter to Mr. 4 Simmons, part second, p. 209, says, “ Where