A manual of obstetrics : theoretical and practical / by W. Tyler Smith.

  • Smith, W. Tyler (William Tyler), 1815-1873.
Date:
1858
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    rectum, it seems quite possible that cases of missed labour have been sometimes mistaken for ventral pregnancy. The treat- ment in cases of missed labour should evidently be to excite the uterus to contraction, if possible, by galvanism or other means, when the time of labour has passed, and the chdd has Fig.67. Contents of cyst, in Dr. Oldham’s case of Missed Labour. been ascertained to be dead, or to combine these means with attempts to break up the fmtus and extract it through the os uteri. When this time has passed by, such eases resemble ventral pregnancy, and require similar treatment. They are, however, perhaps the rarest obstetric complication that can be met with, and have not hitherto been mentioned in syste- matic treatises on midwifery.