A case of inverted uterus / by A. Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
1791
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Credit: A case of inverted uterus / by A. Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    On my return next morning, I learned, that (lie had dept quietly for fix hours after taking the opiate; but,fince that time, (he had fuffered vio- lent pain, from the inverted uterus being again protruded through the os externum, in confe- quence of having turned on her knees, from an urgent defire to make water. The redu&ion of the inverfion was again found impracticable; and therefore, being en- couraged by the temporary relief which had enfued from replacing the uterus within the vagina, I determined to confine my views to that practice alone. I hoped, by doing fo, at leaft to obviate the violent pain, the fuppref- fion of urine, and the tenefmus, which were occafioned by the protrufion of the uterine tumour. I therefore reduced the uterus within the vagina, and retained it there by means of a ring peflary, mounted with fponge. By this treatment, to my great fatisfaCfion, the bearing down pain gradually abated, and the patient made water freely foon after. During feveral days, there was a fetid pu- rulent difchargc from the vagina, and there- fore