Abstract of a registry kept for some years in the Lying-In Hospital of Dublin / by Joseph Clarke.

  • Joseph Clarke
Date:
[1817]
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Credit: Abstract of a registry kept for some years in the Lying-In Hospital of Dublin / by Joseph Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the mother; and that in the second species, such practice is never requisite ; that the first is an occurrence of great danger, he having lost «me of the thirty four cases he records, and that the second is of little danger, he not having lost one of those proceeding from accidental cause ; nor did he think it necessary in a single instance to force delivery. This was Mr. Rigby's doctrine in the first edition of his invaluable work—-in later editions, he has with much candour admitted, that aid may be necessary in haemorrhage from acci- dental cause, although in his third edition he adds, *' I have never yet met with a case. page 70. Of the four placenta presentations which oc- curred in the hospital, one was a case of first preg- nancy, one occurred in the 6th, and one in the 8th month ; another had a defective pelvis, and consequently the head of the foetus was perfora- ted—the mother recovered—in the three first mentioned cases, labour was forced, and 07ie died, viz. the patient in her first pregnancy. Of the ten cases from accidental c?ime,four had delivery forced, one died. One had a defective pelvis, the head of the foetus was perforated, the mother died. ^ One had a cross presentation, the foetus was turned, and the mother died.
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