A practical treatise on midwifery, containing the results of 16,654 births, occurring in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, during a period of seven years commencing November 1826 / by Robert Collins.

  • Collins, Robert, 1801-1868.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A practical treatise on midwifery, containing the results of 16,654 births, occurring in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, during a period of seven years commencing November 1826 / by Robert Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FATAL CASES OF relieved : took G powders : bowels not acted upon : . got an oil draught at 2 p.m. : vomited frequently : slept none : is very restless. Two dozen leeches to the abdomen : warm bath: calomel and opium pills to be given instead of the powders. 27th, 9 A.M.—Pulse hardly perceptible : tongue moist and clean : abdomen considerably distended, not tense : pain on pressure much abated: slept none : constant vomiting: drank 3 quarts: no evacuation from bowels for 24 hours. Continue pills : to have the effervescing mixture with 60 drops of tincture of opium to eight ounces : chicken broth at pleasure, and two ounces of wine every hour. She expired at 2 p.m. On dissection, about a pint of bloody serum (which had a glutinous feel when rubbed between the fingers) was found in the cavity of the abdo- men : there was not the least trace of lymph : the uterus was soft and doughy to the feel, but healthy in structure : the peritoneum, both parietal and visceral, was very vascular, yet the inflammation did not extend deeper, the inner surface of the intestines was quite natural in appearance. This case with Nos. 87 and 88 occurred simul- taneously in the same ward, all precisely of the same character.