The accoucheur, a treatise on protracted natural labours; suspended animation in new born infants; and uterine haemorrhage after the birth of the child. With illustrative cases / [John Craig].

  • Craig, John
Date:
1839
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Credit: The accoucheur, a treatise on protracted natural labours; suspended animation in new born infants; and uterine haemorrhage after the birth of the child. With illustrative cases / [John Craig]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section VII.—Ruptured Uteri. Cases, nine in number, which occurred in the Man- chester lying-in hospital, from 1827 to 1833, under the superintendence of John Robertson, Esq., surgeon, are narrated by the author, to show the risk incurred of laceration of the uterus, in labours complicated with deformity or narrowness of the inlet of the pelvis. The greater portion of the women in this number, if not all, had born children naturally, previous to the labour in which rupture of the uterus occurred. From this circumstance, and from the account given by Mr Robertson himself, we cannot bring ourselves to the belief that narrowing of the inlet of the pelvis was by any means the cause of rupture of the uterus. One woman, or two, who had previously born children by the natural efforts, and whose pelves afterwards became so distorted as to prevent delivery naturally, might come under the care of an accoucheur who had spent a long life in the practice of midwifery, but that nine cases of ruptured uteri should come under the care of any man or woman, from any cause, in so short a period, is, so far as our information extends, quite matchless. In Case 1st, the reason given by the midwife for sending for Mr Robertson was, that the woman was tossing about in bed, and complaining greatly of the crampy severity of the pains. This, says Mr Robert-