Observations on the Caesarean section / by Robert Bellingham.

  • Bellingham, Robert.
Date:
[between 1810 and 1819]
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Credit: Observations on the Caesarean section / by Robert Bellingham. 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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    Bellingham on the Cresarerm <3>ry VI. Observations on the Cesarean Section. By Robert Belling- ham* Surgeon-Apothecary, Bourne, Lincolnshire. In the first essay of a valuable work from the pen of Dr. Farre, intitled “ Pathological Researches,” a case is published of malformation of the heart in a woman who died suddenly in the eighth month of pregnancy. To this case the following observations are appended : “ The foetus had been turned and extracted by Mr. Saner im- mediately after the mother’s death. Although this humane effort to preserve its life was not crowned with success, the cir- cumstances of the case being unfavourable, yet the attempt merits praise:—such an effort is not incompatible even with a trial of means for restoring animation to the mother. The Ce- sarean Section ought only to be used where the mother has suffered a violent death ” It is the latter remark to which I am chiefly desirous of calling attention. I shall first, briefly, relate a case which fell within my obser- vation ; and afterwards offer a few explanatory remarks. The latter end of January 1813, I was very hastily sum-, moned, about four o’clock in the morning, to a w'oman who was