An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus : illustrated with cases / by Edward Rigby.

  • Rigby, Edward, 1747-1821.
Date:
1811
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Credit: An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus : illustrated with cases / by Edward Rigby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fact, given by those who then lectured on the art of midwifery ? Levret's facts, moreover, though they proved that the Placenta might be originally attached to the Os Uteri (and a single instance would establish this), were scarcely sufficient to prove the frequency of its occurrence, from which alone arises the necessity of practically attending to it in every case of Hae- morrhage. His observations (perhaps even more creditable to him for being founded on such scanty materials) were derived from four cases only, and of these but two were under his own im- mediate cognizance; whereas, in the first edition of this Essay my opinions were supported by thirty-six detailed cases, in thirteen of which the Placenta