A dissertation on retroversion of the womb : including some observations on extra-uterine gestation / by Samuel Merriman.

  • Samuel Merriman
Date:
1810
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Credit: A dissertation on retroversion of the womb : including some observations on extra-uterine gestation / by Samuel Merriman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Come on, as speedily to cause the mother’d death.— Or, Fourthly,—That the foetus may be expelled by an ulcerative process through the parietes of the uterus into the rectum or vagipa, as hap¬ pened in the cases of Sig. Patuna and Messrs, Kelson, Colman, and Mainwaring. It becomes then an object of great impor¬ tance to determine, what method of treatment ought to be adopted, when the uterus at the time of labor is found to be retroverted. Dr. Hull, in his elaborate defence of the Caesarean operation, considering all these cases as extra- uterine, recommends, “ to cut through the back part of the vagina, and to bring the child through the os externumand the same ope¬ ration has been recommended by Dr. Mackenzie and Dr. Kelly. There is a case quoted by Dr, Hull, which happened to Monsieur Lauverjat, in which the child was extracted by an incision into the uterus through the vagina. There is a great want of accuracy in describing the situation of the womb ; but I can only con¬ ceive of it, that it was in a retroverted state; and that the* incision was made through the posterior part of the vagina into the uterus. Unless this were the position, I see no reason that there could be for operating at all. “ Une
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