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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    drawing of one these cases, which was peculiarly well marked. No. 15.—This child died on the 3d day. No evacuation could be procured from the bowels; injections when thrown up even in small quantity wer6 instantly returned unchanged. This led us to suspect obstruction of the intestine, which was found to be the case. On dissection, the gut was found impervious, so high up as the head of the colon. A substance, similar in appearance to the testicle of an infant, was found at the place where the obstruction existed; it was not however glandular in structure. No. 19.—This was an acephalous foetus, much deformed; it died in an hour. No. 74.—This child had umbilical hernia when born, with a covering so transparent that the intestine could be seen through it. It was imme- diately returned into the abdomen, when a tumour as large as a walnut was found still remaining. Mr. Colles, our consulting surgeon, was called to see the case, when it was thought advisable to apply a ligature nearer to the body of the child, the first having been put on so as to avoid in- cluding any portion of the contents of the tumour. When the ligature was put loosely round the neck of the tumour the sac was opened, and found to contain what was considered by some to be an