Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees].

  • Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1809?]
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Credit: Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one, it is true, at prefent thinks of fuch an operation, which for feveral reafons would be equally dangerous and defperate; but the poffibility of the event is a proof of the validi- ty of the affertion, that it is an organ not ne- celfary to life. Before we finifh this anatomical defcription, it will be neceffary to fay a few words relative to fome other parts.in connexion or in the vi- ♦ » . . • - * i, than cither of the three laft mentioned (Dr. Turner) gives us a remarkable hiftory of a cafe in which an operation of this kind was performed without fatal confequences. His words are thefe, u An elderly woman, whofe intellects were deranged, under a lit of melancholy, was pondering how to free herfelf from this inconvenience (alluding to a proci- dentia uteri, which fhefttad in a confiderable degree) and unknown to any perfon of the family, taking her opportu- nity, firft putting herfelf in a fuitable pofture, with one hand (he draws down the proiapfed body,' whilfl with her hufband’s razor in the other, got it as were by Health, Hie excifed all within her reach, then putting a clout up to the parts, (lie got into bed.” After detailing the progrefs of her cure, he adds, “ She now gets out of bed, takes her nourilhment and reft, the .difcharge from the wound being inconfiderable, and the fame bidding fair for the healing fuddenly.” Vide Turner’s Surgery, Vol. II. cinity