Observations on the management of tedious labour, with an account of the number of cases that occurred in the Lying-In Hospital, Dublin, from November 1800 to the 31st July 1816 / by John Breen.

  • Breen, John.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the management of tedious labour, with an account of the number of cases that occurred in the Lying-In Hospital, Dublin, from November 1800 to the 31st July 1816 / by John Breen. 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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    cd after their use, were in labour, the times divided into parti- tions of five hours. Table—No. III. Less 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 1 10 1 15 than 50 Between & & & & & 6i cV .V £ & & & cV & & & & 6: hours. 35 40 45 50 55 60 05 70 75 so 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 120 1 Woman Women . 1 0 9 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 The Table, No. IV., shews the same facts with respect to the women who died after the use of instruments, that the Table, No. III., shewed with respect to those who recovered. Table—No- IV. Less 20 55 40 45 50 55;6o|65 70 &!&!&■& 75i80 85 90 95 100 105 than 50 Between & &. & & & & & & & & & & hours. 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 T5 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 S Women Women 0 0 0 6 0 10 13 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 Of the eighteen who died four were sent to the hospital after being long under the care of a midwife, their strength much ex- hausted, and dissolution took place shortly after. Two were delivered by instruments in consequence of acute inflammation occurring during labour; in one the cause of death was ascertained by dissection, and the inflammation seem- ed to have commenced in one of the ovaria. The other re- ceived an injury by a fall shortly before admission, and symp- toms of abdominal inflammation were violent before delivery. Mary Clarke, delivered in consequence of umbilical hernia, died shortly after delivery, was not more than twenty-four hours in labour. Isabella Lcgget, somgwhat deformed, delivered by instru- ments after being one hundred and ten hours in labour; was out of bed for some days, and considered free from danger, but was attacked on the seventeen ih day after delivery by violent symptoms of internal inflammation, which carried her off in twenty-four hours. The remaining ten appear to have died either from the effects of debility or inflammation. The proportion of deaths here stated will to many probably appear large ; and whether the use of instruments, in the cases of some of those who died after tedious labour, as well as their