History of a case of convulsions during the latter months of pregnancy, with practical remarks on convulsions during pregnancy and labour / by James Hamilton, junior.

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
[1800]
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Credit: History of a case of convulsions during the latter months of pregnancy, with practical remarks on convulsions during pregnancy and labour / by James Hamilton, junior. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    / SECTION II. ^MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS, I. }UiJlory of a Cafe of Convulfions during the laU ter months of Pregnancy, with Practical Re- marks on Convulfions during Pregnancy and Labour. By James Hamiltony«;2/or, M. D. Profejfor of Midwifery in the Univerjity of Edinburgh. MRS M. aged twenty-five, of a melan- cholic temperament, fully feven months :advanced in her firft pregnancy, having been feized with violent convulfions at 8 o'clock -A. M. of December 24. 1799, was vifited by Dr Fitzgerald of Virginia, then my annual pupil, and myfelf, about an hour after the ■firfl: attack. VVe found her nearly infenfible, '•with an opprefled flow pulfe, the pupils of the