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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    act for 40 minutes, natural respiration could not be established. The mother from the period of delivery gra- dually sunk, never having afforded the slightest hope of recovery. Extensive inflammation of the vagina and all the soft parts set in, followed by sloughing, and she died on the 10th day. On examination after death, the soft parts within the pelvis exhibited an extensively sloughy appear- ance ; the inflammation extended to the ligaments of the uterus, where matter was found in several points ; the uterus itself was soft and flabby. The urethra was uninjured. On opening the chest several tubercular abscesses were observed in the substance of the right lung, with tubercles in diff'erent stages. All the viscera were more or less unhealthy. It was evident she must have been labouring under a very general state of disease for some time, which may possibly account for such rapid sinking, after a labour by no means severe. It was her first child, and she was 36 hours ill. No. 40.—The funis was prolapsed; see Ob- servations on Presentations of Feet, No. 6. No. 178.—This child was deHvered with the forceps, uterine action being feeble and inefficient. The labour lasted 50 hours ; it was a first child, and died on the 4th day. No. 152.—The feet presented in this case, with a prolapsus of the funis.