Case of uterine haemorrhage, where the placenta was expelled four hours before the birth of the child / by John Chapman ; communicated by Dr Pearson.

  • Chapman, John.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Case of uterine haemorrhage, where the placenta was expelled four hours before the birth of the child / by John Chapman ; communicated by Dr Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into the uterus; but with all his efforts, for upwards of half an hour, he could not recover a foot. I then made an attempt, and intro- duced my hand readily into the uterus, and found it fpafmodically contracted, in a longi- tudinal direction ; the circular fibres acting without the confent of the longitudinal. I proceeded with the greateft degree of cau- tion, acting betwixt the pains, (which our ef- forts had now excited); but every effort to introduce my hand farther towards the fun- dus uteri, where the feet evidently lay, in- creafed the fpafmodic contraction, that with all my efforts for nearly an hour, I gained no- thing, and defifted. During the whole of this time, the haemorrhage had not in the leaft increafed. Our efforts to turn being thus fruftrated, we thought that, by bringing down the hand, the head might be brought fuffi- ciently low in the pelvis, (being a large pel- vis, and only an eight month’s foetus), as to come within the grafp of the forceps, refol- ving to apply them higher than would be ad- mifiible in almoft any other cafe. The for- ceps were then fent for; but in the interim, it was propofed by Mr H. to give a dofe of D 4 tin Cl. /