An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition.

  • Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815.
Date:
1785
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Credit: An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the information, which I have confi- dered as the jirjl recjuifite towards an improvement in the practice; for though it has been little noticed by thofe who have written upon the fubje£f, they cer- tainly arife from two very different caufes, which are very different in the danger they produce, and which re- quire a very oppofite method of treat- ment. Floodings have, indeed, hereto- fore been confidered as arifing from two different caufes, one alone of which was fuppofed dangerous; a diftin&ion having been made, by fome authors, between the difcharge which came from the Vagina, and that which proceeded from the Uterus ; and when it came * from the Uterus, they alfo diflinguifhed whether it came from the bottom or the orifice of the womb, by which was only meant, whether it was occafioncd by a feparation of the Placenta, or whether it was owing merely to a rupture of the yeffels of the Vagina or Os Uteri, pro- duced