A practical treatise on uterine hemorrhage : in connexion with pregnancy and parturition / By John T. Ingleby.

  • Ingleby, J. T. (John Thomas), 1794-1845.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A practical treatise on uterine hemorrhage : in connexion with pregnancy and parturition / By John T. Ingleby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    now been performed about twenty times with the greatest success. It is simple in principle, safe, easily performed, and promises to constitute a valuable addition to our resources in the treatment of hemorrhages and their imme- diate effects. It appears from Dr. Blundell's experiments upon the dog, that the injection of canine blood was really applied to the nourishment of the system, and con- sequently was something more than a mere stimulus to the heart's action. The recovery of patients from he- morrhage after sickness, vomiting, coldness of the skin, restlessness, the absence of pulse in the superficial arte- ries, and whose vital powers had been reduced to the lowest standard compatible with existence, cannot fairly be urged in disparagement of the operation; for whilst a few of the stronger constitutions emerge from such an exhaus- tion, the majority of results are far less fortunate. This delicate operation, as it ought not to be lightly undertaken, but should be had recourse to only as a dernier ressort, so neither ought it to be postponed until all rational hopes of resuscitation are past, for then the doubts and derision of the sceptic would be confirmed, and the remedy would be brought into obloquy and contempt. I have availed myself of Mr. Wal- ler's description of the operation, as being the most simple I have yet seen. To the barrel of Lloyd's syringe is appended a small funnel, by means of which contrivance the blood passes directly from the arm of the person supplying it into the syringe, without being obliged to be first received into another vessel: some little time is thus gained, which is an object of importance. A stopcock is also attached to it, by turning which the communication may be opened either with the funnel or with the extremity of the instrument, according as the blood is either being received into the syringe from the funnel above, or is being passed into the vein of the^atient. Kk