Volume 2

The anatomy of the gravid uterus. With practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour / By John Burns.

  • Burns, John, 1774-1850.
Date:
1799
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The anatomy of the gravid uterus. With practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour / By John Burns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ In thefe cafes, it is, occafionally, a con~ fiderable time before the hemorrhage ap- pears, the effufed blood being retained, diftending the uterus to a certain de- gree. This, at firft, produces a dull pain in that part of the uterus where the fepa- ration happens; but this very foon be- comes more fevere, the contraction of the uterus commences, and the clotted blood is firft difcharged, mixed with that which is full fluid. After this, the blood flows in a ftream, and the cafe becomes fimi- lar to thofe already defcribed, both in its nature and treatment. A. FLOODING is indeed a truly alarm- ing accident, and one of the greateft dan- gers to which a woman is expofed, either during geftation or labour. But there is no difeafe more eafily underftood ;’ and, alarming as it is, the accoucheur can be called to none which more evidently