Successful case of Caesarean section, with remarks : read at the anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical & Surgical Association, held at Worcester, August 1st, 1849 / by Thomas Radford.

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1849
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Credit: Successful case of Caesarean section, with remarks : read at the anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical & Surgical Association, held at Worcester, August 1st, 1849 / by Thomas Radford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CESAREAN SECTION. The subject of tliis case—Mary, wife of William Haigh—resides at Fiats Fold, a mile from Asbton- under-Lyne, and about eight miles from Manchester. On my arrival, at half-past three o'clock p.m., I called upon Mr. Chile}-, who accompanied me to the case, and with the greatest courtesy and candour, gave me as we passed along, the following particulars:—She had felt slight pains, according to the account of the friends, about a week, but Mr. Cluley thought that true parturient pains had only existed about three days, and which were so slight as not to require his interference. On this day, (Sunday, May 20th, 1849,) at nine o'clock, he was again called, and although the pains were still trifling, he made an examination per vaginam, but was unable to feel either the os uteri, or the presentation; he therefore had her taken out of bed and placed on the lap of a female friend, and again repeated his inquiry. The head of the infant was now felt, and the OS uteri found dilated to the size of a half-crown piece. In this manoeuvre he unintentionally ruptured the mem- branes. The pelvis, he mentioned, was considerably contracted. I found her lying on the right side'. Pulse 120; tongue clean and moist; her countenance tranquil, but a little flushed. Her bowels had been freely and fully moved this morning; and she had also freely and duly urinated. She was helplessly fixed on her side, and when requested to turn, she remarked that