Memorandum on the presence of air in the middle ear as a sign of live birth / by Francis Ogston.

  • Francis Ogston
Date:
[1875?]
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Credit: Memorandum on the presence of air in the middle ear as a sign of live birth / by Francis Ogston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 Age of child State of the middle ears. State of lungs. Cause of death. ] 14 weeks. 9 weeks. Filled with air. Filled with air. Fully expanded, do. Smothering, do £ 2 months. Filled with fluid. do. do. 4 6 weeks. B. air, L. muddx do. do. fluid. 6 1 month. Filled with air. do. do. 6 4 weeks. B. air, L. air and do. Broncho- V 8 days. fluid. Filled with air. do. pneumonia. Bronchitis. 8 3 days. Containing air. do. Smothering’. 9 2 hours. Fluid and yellow Partly expanded. Apoplexia- ] 10 New-born. substance. neonatorum. Containing fluid. Expanded. Smothering, j) 11 New-born. Filled with red do. Fracture of 12 New-born. fluid. skull. Containing fluid. do. Smothering, h 13 New-born. Containing red fluid. Partly expanded. (?) A 14 1 )^ew-horn. STew-born. ( 2!ontalning air. Expanded. i Smothering-. 15 2!ontaining fluid. Jnexpanded. ^ Stillborn. other facts to fix term of life, &c. Bronchitis, do. Bronchitis. o -- j ^* physematous. about 2 hours. ionium in large intestine, do. nium in do. Meco- large m -L uugiio, pciiidjjb, lu nave omiuea tneiirst six cases as not bearing directly on the subject, but I have thought it better to adduce them as though most of the ears contained air, yet some of them con- tained fluid also, and m one (3) they were filled with fluid, although tile child had lived two months, and there were no signs of catarrh in the respiratory tract to account for its presence. The fluid was probably catarrhal; but as it was not examined microscopically I cannot state positively that it was so. ^ cases, on the contrary, are those in which Dr. V\ reden s proposed test should be expected to prove useful, but as r (*’ “‘l 14.) 'fas air found in the middle ears, although the lungs in all, with the exception of a stillborn immature infant, contained sufficient air to float in water and from all air could be expressed when they were held under water. d-he presence of catarrhal fluid in the middle ear might be mis¬ leading, but in these cases more or less air would be found along with it which would tend to prevent its being mistaken for the gelatinous matter found before birth.—P. Ogston, Jud.
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