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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    and fuch a con fider able quantity of blood has been loll, as threatens the immediate death of the patient, that nothing but a fpeedy delivery will give any chance of preventing it; and have given us cafes, wherein the bringing away the child by art has been attended with fuccefs; they likewife inform us of others, in which waiting and purfu- ing the palliating means has been jufli- fied, by the natural pains having come on, and the child having been timely expelled by them; moreover, where both methods have been ufed, a great number are related which, neverthelefs, proved fatal : but no particular reafons have been given, why the different me- thods of practice were ufed, why the fame methods in fome cafes have fuc* ceeded, and in others, apparently fimi- lar, have failed ; nor have any hints been fuggefted to us, which might lead us, at the beginning of the complaint, even to a probable conjefture, whether the Haemorrhage be of that kind, which requires the turning the child, or not. We I