The pathology of intra-uterine death being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1887 / by William O. Priestley.

  • Priestley, W. O. (William Overend), 1831-1900.
Date:
1887
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    matic tetanus during pregnancy, and who neverthe- less went to her full time. M. Brillaud Laujardiere relates the case of a peasant who took his wife, while pregnant, behind him on horseback, and started off at full gallop, with the object of bringing on abortion. After shaking her thoroughly in this way, he dropped her suddenly on the ground without stopping. This treatment he repeated twice without success* I have on more than one occasion failed to bring on abortion when extreme peril to a woman called for this interference, by passing the sound deep into the uterine cavity, and stirring up its contents; and one case is on record in which an intra-uterine pessarv was unwittingly introduced into the womb of a pregnant woman, and was worn for some time with- out provoking abortion. The frequency of embroynic death in the earlier stages of gestation is approximately shown by the tables of Whitehead.! These were taken from the records of the Manchester Lying-in Hospital, and give an estimate so far as it relates to women of the poorer classes. Whitehead interrogated 2000 preg- nant women, whose average age was a fraction below thirty years, and he found the sum of their preg- nancies had been 8681, or 4.34 for each; of which about one in seven had terminated abortively. Seven hundred and forty-seven women had aborted once at least, some oftener; their average age was 32.08 years ; the number of their pregnancies was 4775 ; that of their abortions 1222 or 1.63 for each person. * See T. Gallard, De l'avortement, &c, au point de but med- ieval. f Abortion and Sterility, 1S47.