A case of ruptured uterus / by Henry Gore Clough.

  • Clough, Henry Gore.
Date:
1815
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    THE LONDON MEDICAL REPOSITORY. No. 14. FEBRUARY I, 1815. Vol. 111. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. A Case of Ruptured Uterus. By Henry Gore Clough, M. D.j Lecturer on Midwifery in London. Two cases of Ruptured Uterus have happened in the me- tropolis in a few weeks, and a history of one of these having been already given in the Repository, (vol. ii. p. 361,) I am induced to think an account of the other will neither be useless nor unacceptable. Elizabeth Danielli, the subject of this unfortunate case, married at the age of eighteen, and became pregnant of her first child about the latter end of the year 1812. At the com- mencement of 1813, she was afflicted with severe diarrhoea, which, baffling every means used for its suppression, continued to the time of her accouchement On the 19th of June her labour commenced ; but being unwilling to give trouble, she did not apply for assistance until the morning of the 21st, when she appeared much exhausted, and the pains had become feeble and inefficient. By an examination per vaginam, I then as- certained the external orifice and os uteri to be in a dilatable state, and that the membranes had been some time ruptured. In about an hour, I discovered the head of the child resting on the upper aperture of the pelvis. The abdomen, at this tune, was very much distended, and as the liquor amnii had been discharged, I concluded that there was either a very large child, or twins. The pelvis was preternaturally small, but not ■istorted. The exact presentation of the cranium I cannot at vol. iiv—-so. 14. N PARTI. % I. -VN