An essay on prolapse of the funis : with a new method of treatment / by T. Gaillard Thomas.

  • Thomas, T. Gaillard (Theodore Gaillard), 1832-1903.
Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: An essay on prolapse of the funis : with a new method of treatment / by T. Gaillard Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ESSAY ON PROLAPSE OF THE PUHIS, WITH A NEW METHOD OF TREATMENT. By T. Gaillard Thomas, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO THE DEMILT DISPENSARY, NEW YORK CITY. READ FEBRUARY 3, 1858. In the records of the art of obstetrics, from very early dates, frequent allusion to the occurrence of prolapse of the funis umbilicalis, as a complication of labor, may be found. Its dangers, the terrible mortality attendant upon it, and the extreme difficulty encompassing its successful treatment, were all fully known to the forefathers of medicine. From the time of the first recognition of its gravity to the present day, accouch¬ eurs have not ceased in their efforts to discover some means by which the child might be rescued from its imminent peril; and from time to time instruments, ingeniously devised for return- the cord to the uterus, and operative procedures, having for their object the rapid removal of the child from the pelvis, have been advised; until at length we find ourselves sur¬ rounded by a multiplicity of methods, each of Vhich has its strong supporters, but in none of which all can unite as reliable, and free from danger to mother or to child. It is into an examination of these means, and the mortality which in spite of them has marked this accident, that I am now about to enter; and after having reviewed them, it is my design respectfully to lay before the Academy a plan of treat- o O