A practical treatise on midwifery, containing the results of 16,654 births occurring in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, during a period of seven years commencing November 1826 / by Robert Collins.

  • Collins, Robert, 1801-1868.
Date:
1835
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on midwifery, containing the results of 16,654 births occurring in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, during a period of seven years commencing November 1826 / by Robert Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    45/548 (page 31)
    Dr. Beatty, New Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, in 39i) eases, used the crotchet 2, or 1 in 199> and the forceps 2 ; total 4, or 1 in 99-* In the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, Dr. Joseph Clarke, in 10,199 cases, used the crotchet 49 times, or 1 in 208, and the forceps 14 times; total ()3 times, or 1 in 102 nearly. In the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, during my residence, in tedious and difficult labours, the crotchet was used 79 times, in 1G,G54 births, or 1 in 211, besides 39 times, in cases where the uterus was ruptured, or the umbilical cord pro- lapsed and pulseless, or where the patient was labouring under convulsions; total 118, or 1 in 141, also the forceps and lever 27 times; total 145, or 1 in 114. These cases will be found particularly noticed under the different heads specified. The general table of all the women who died in the hospital, to which is affixed a particular table shewing the cause of death in each, may be consulted with advantage, in the investigation of this subject. It will there be seen that the number of women who died from the effects of tedious and difficult labours, is comparatively in- considerable. * Dublin Medical Journal, Vol. VIII. No. XXII.