An attempt to prove, on rational principles, that the term of human pregnancy may be considerably extended beyond nine calendar months : comprising the substance of evidence given in the Gardner peerage cause, before the House of Lords, July 4, 1825 / by John Power.

  • Power, John.
Date:
1825
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Credit: An attempt to prove, on rational principles, that the term of human pregnancy may be considerably extended beyond nine calendar months : comprising the substance of evidence given in the Gardner peerage cause, before the House of Lords, July 4, 1825 / by John Power. 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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    Uesseniiig of its volume and greater compact- mess. Occasionally the insensible contraction iis sufficiently forcible to open, to a degree, the imouth of the womb in the same way as the ttrue labour-pains do, or to rupture the bag (of membranes, by which the child is more iimmediately enveloped. Another interesting fact remains to be de- ttailed—the peculiar supply of nerves to the imouth of the womb. The main trunk of the nerve (hypogastric) ^which chiefly supplies the womb, divides into two branches, one of which is expended upon 1 the bladder and rectum; the other passes on to I the womb, on approaching which, it spreads itself out like the expanded sticks of a fan, some of the branches of which pass obliquely upwards towards the upper or broad end of the body of the womb; the less oblique, or horizontal ones, pass directly to the lower parts of the body, and the mouth of the womb; while the remaining ones run obliquely down- ward towards the more external parts; the greatest crowd or number of branches, how- • ever, go to the mouth of the womb.* • See Dr. Hunter and Baillie's description of the Gravid Uterus.