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.

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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    3° fright. See.—but as thefe, with other fymptorns that might, very likely, be enumerated, are, at beft, but vague and equivocal: and as alfo, though the Pla- centa be fituated on the mouth of the womb, it may, neverthelefs, fometimes be feparated by the fame accidental means which detach it, when otherwife fituated, the only certain knowledge re- fpecling its fituation, is to be derived from an examination of the Uterus by the touch. Fop. this purpofe, however, the ufual method with one finger will not always fuffice, but the hand muff be introduced into the Vagina, and one finger infinu- ated into the Uterus *; for in feveral of the following cafes it will appear, that * I have lately had an opportunity of feeing an accu- rate copy of Dr. Young’s very excellent Le&ures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, and though he takes no notice of this lingular fituation of the Placenta, he advifes in flooding always to examine the ftate of the Uterus, by introducing the hand into the Vagina ; the rcafon he gives for it is, that the coagulated blood which is ufually found in the paflage, renders it impoflible to feel