Abdominal and uterine tolerance in pregnant women : as shown by the low rate of mortality under severe lacerated and other wounds, the result of direct violence / by Robert P. Harris.

  • Harris, Robert P. (Robert Patterson), 1822-1899.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Abdominal and uterine tolerance in pregnant women : as shown by the low rate of mortality under severe lacerated and other wounds, the result of direct violence / by Robert P. Harris. 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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    lost was a rhacliitic, deaf and dumb, dwarf, and died in twenty-eight hours from shock. In ante-partum Caesarean operations it may be well to anticipate any possible risk of uterine quiescence by giving a hypodermic injection of ergotin half an hour before the operation is to be commenced. Second operations on the same subjects are rarely fatal if well managed, but the dangers of hemorrhage from the placenta presenting in the line of incision are increased because of utero-abdominal adhesions leading to atony; and this risk will not be entirely avoided, even if the woman is fully in labor. History, however, shows that the danger is rarely in- surmountable, and that women have recovered after as many as four,1 and even six2 ccelio-hysterotomies, although no uterine sutures were used. Since the introduction of the Sanger method, as many as three operations have been performed upon the same woman, with safety to her and the three children. 1 Frau Adametz—three out of four children saved. (Neue Zeitschrift fur Geburtskunde vol. v., 1837.) a Madum Godard, of Menil, under Dr. N. Guillet, of Milly. She died undelivered in a seventh labor, after the death of Dr. Guillet. (Eoonhuyzen's Medico-Chirurgical Observations, 1662.)