Practical remarks on lacerations of the uterus and vagina : with cases / By Thomas M'Keever.

  • M'Keever, Thomas.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Practical remarks on lacerations of the uterus and vagina : with cases / By Thomas M'Keever. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SYMPTOMS OF A RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS. When the Uterus gives way spontaneously, that is in consequence of its own inordinate action, the following is, in general, the history of the case. The patient, who, in all probability, has had a suc¬ cession of tedious and of difficult labours, after encountering for many hours, perhaps foi days together, sufferings of the most acute and haiao sing description, and at a time when her anxious friends and attendants are impatiently looking forward to the happy moment which is to free her from her misery, and render her a joyful parent, is suddenly attacked with an agonizing, crampisli pain, referable to some particular spot in the abdomen; during the intensity of which she ex¬ claims, that something has given way within her; she becomes sick, vomits a little, and complains of the child having risen to her stomach. Her pains cease, or are altered in character; she looks pale and ghastly, her countenance expressing great mental and bodily distress; she writhes and twists, with the severity of her torture,* the hand * Occasionally, however, the patient lies perfectly quiet on her back, with the knees drawn up; in this position the ab¬ dominal muscles are relaxed, by which the pressure on the lacerated part is, to a certain extent, diminished.