An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition.

  • Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815.
Date:
1785
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    fo widely different, we cannot be at a lofs when fuch occur to us, and we have difcovered the particular caufe from which they arife, how to a£I; as, in the one cafe, we fhall be encouraged to wait, and make ufe of fuch means to re drain the difcharge, as will be more particularly mentioned hereafter, and in the other, we fhall not hefitate to have recourfe to delivery by art: for it is very obvious, that the want of fuccefs which has fo often attended the turning the child, when fuch has been thought neceffary, is to be attributed to the ope- ration having been too long delayed, rather than to any real danger that at- * me with a cafe fomewhat like this ; cc he was fent for to a woman who had flooded pretty much, the membranes- were broken and the Funis was coming down into the Vagina, he immediately introduced his hand to turn, when he found the head in the paflage, which by a pain was forced pretty low, and he thought the labor would foon be over, but after waiting two or three hours the head continued where it was, and the flooding returned at times ; the woman being now very weak and the child certainly dead, from the obftru&ion of the navel-ftring, which was pufhed down, he opened the head, delivered, and the patient did well.” tends