A remarkable extra-uterine case / by Josiah Bartlett.

  • Bartlett, Josiah, 1759-1820.
Date:
[between 1810 and 1819]
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Credit: A remarkable extra-uterine case / by Josiah Bartlett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £g<> Dr. Mevrinian on the Art of Midwifery, which have come to my knowledge, that bear any resem- blance to the one I have now related. It is remarked by a distinguished writer on obstetrics, that “ in the records of medicine there is a very great num- ber of examples of the extra-uterine fetus, in all of which there may be observed some similarity of circumstances that but “ few practical remarks have been made on the subject, which can be useful to those who are in the way of meeting with cases of this kind. If an abscess should be formed in the side, or any part of the abdomen, and through the subsequent opening any part of the child should be eva- cuated, it will then be expedient to forward the exclusion of the remaining parts, either by enlarging the opening, or giving such other assistance, as surgery is very competent to It is further stated, that “ when all the bones” of an extra- uterine fetus “ are evacuated by the intestines or vagina, the parts affected gradually recover from the injury they have sustained, without any remaining mischief, and the pa- tient usually enjoys as perfect health, as if no such accident had happened.” . . T Having examined all the books in my possession, lean find but a single instance where a putrid fetus was extracted from an abscess in the umbilical region, and the mother was preserved: this is related in Heister’s Surgery, Vol. II. Chap. CXIII. “ on the caesarean section. -New-England Journal.